The Newtown bee., 1898-08-26

f''rst -e,A5.S, ! : tta 'IJL 3; t . R.. z. Mitchell, who, with his father, c" Le Roy Mitchell, srnn, one of the best farms in'the' town of flSoathbury, delight fully situated bn the banks of the Housa. tonic. river about. a, mile north of the Sandy Hook bridge. has at present. graz ing on his acreage of pasture land one of the greatest wonders e9et khownlt to cattle breeders. or, heard of. in the, e,eanhais of bovine histary. Hearing. that lthere, was somethiRg more than worth seeing on |1Mr Mitehell,,s "Piaee,, ,9teprgsentative of HE BEE journe Xed thither1 one night recently" He. found MT Mitchell on the road when about half way over, and by purely guessing, it would not be- far wrong to suggest he was talking trade, for besides looking closely after tbe ,in- terests Of his large farmI he doss & fire insurance bdsiness,' sells,' trades and deals in horses, wagons and harness and deals quite extensively in cows and cattle, furnishing a.good many farmers ip his vicinity with their new stock: q He has just dispofed Of a: car load bought and cared ia from Pennsylvania 9 ra
 But to retuon -te the subject of this skerehJ Un' arriving at Mir Mit tchell's house and going put into the ,f6tg with him, we were shown 8 cow snd four yearllng heifers, all her offspring. There have often been twins and oecasi ionally trfplets, but never in the history of the country, as far as statisticss1n animal industry are concefned, fs' there any tec ora of quaafupl9tEt The mother of these phenomena is a good, sized milo and handsome bhorosghbred2 Holstein COW, Their sire was theronghbted" red Dur ham. In color the yyodngstef4 tal after their sire, being all red excepting [ smaH white patch in front of the uddet. All four have this patch and are marked. ex- actly alike. In fact, so closely are they marked and so nearly of 8 size that it is impossible for a.straBgeE to tell one from the other and even hard for Mir Mitchell to distinguish them himself. They are exceptionally fine, yearliDgs.rv ,,s "' "' It is pretty sight to see them all graz. ing together, and 50 much do they think of each othfr that the other day. when 8 .oew got, into the lot with them and started to fight one7of them they all turned in to help, and put her to reut,. They are constantly together and seem much enamered with each others society: MT MftchefII In company with his broth CT, Walter L, Mitchell, b69ght the em in Penpsglyanis,z last April Iet Chr ristian Blystone, a |" cattle breeder of Cam bridge, Pennsylvanis,,1 ,,1 i''sndI with them 'ls < sworn statement as".tb their identitY.r, When, they were calves MT Blystoae refused large sumshof money for .theh, one 6fer being as high as $500. They were kept, at Pehn.5 until two weeks ago, when Mitchsll Brothers ship ped them here with the car of other stock that they brought on! '7' ''' ,, '-
 :, H,TheS win probably be exhibited at the coming fairs, this fall, and are already booked aaone of the attractionsfor the Newtownf fair. Some lnvet of good cattle, !. who enjoys having what, some other fel- low can't hages will 1probablE be after them, for it, is certain there 1hever was, anything like ths quartet Of most prom ising, heifefs, and the proud HHaPna HlalplH 2l