The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-03
AAElRICA'Ss " ] FINE CATTLE
VALUE OF. SCIENCE IN BREEDING
PROVED HERE. @iI

ne america ~ an Expert-Many Breed
lie Combined In tho So. Called Native Cat
tle-Work OF Improving the Herds.
- George Nj. Rommel. expert in anima
10 husbandry of the Bureau of Anima
W industry, says in an Agricultural De
,e partment bulletin. just issued, thai
n. American breeders of cattle have
=. equalled If not excelled the results
10 reached on the other side of the
IS water. But" he adds, mo suprem.
i. acy OF excellence, no victory in show
d ring or market, can efface the memory
', Oh the debt America owes to those
S sturdy yeomen whose names adorn
e the best herd records of England and
r Scotland
S Mr.. Romners pamphlet is devoted to
e study Of American breeds of beef
e cattle. lie beginS at the very Begin
ming. going back to that voyage of
Columbus on which the first cattle
5 known In the Western Hemisphere are
supposed to have been brought over.
other Spanish explorers and armed
} invaders followed Columbus's exam
} pies. bringing not only cattle but horses
!. as well.
Ihere was an abundance of grass
ana water, and as the Spaniards peae.
1rated further into the interior of the
country their herds in growing num-
Ders followed them. From these spranr
the native cattle of the West Indies
and Mexico, the long horned steers of
IeAas and the. wild horses Of tie
plains.
The next cattle ilnmi grafton came
with the Portuguese to Newfoundland |
| ana Nova Scotia The French. ron. |
| introduced cattle into Arcadia and New
France.
ihese Were carried into the far in
terror, and as far back as 1850 the
french missionaries in Illinois nos
sessed considerable herds of cattle
horses and swine.
virginia got her cattle from England
soon after the settlement of James.
town. They multiplied in the Old Do
mlnion very rapidly, one contributi,o
cause being the fact that the law in
those early days made the killing of
cattle crime punishable with death.
Inc Pilgrim Fathers began the cat
Tie business with three heifers and q
Dull, brought over from England in tho
snip charity in 1924. New Hampshire
got her first cattle from Denmark.
New York from Holland, and Delaware
from sweden. ut about the time the
Charlty landed the three heifers and
the bull
Inc first shipment to the Caro!inas
was from England in 1910. while Geor-
s'a was the last of all the colonies to I
hgure as market for the English ex
port trade in breeding cattle.
mus it was that the United States {
sot us nrst start in that cattle business
"nlch IL the year of grace 1902 has
made 1t possible to have all the present
ruInpus about the Meat Trust. The
STOCK gathered from various parts of
Europe were all so hopelessly inter- =
IN course of time that their
luehtlty was lost, with the result that r
our forefathers had what were known I"
rs the native cattle of the Unired =
states. or this stock MI. Ronme] :.
says: v
What the native stock was like wa %
'an best imagine from the stories of ,e
nen now old, and from the scrub stocl, -
nat IS even yet the eyesore of many ~
'"edlsh, French. Dutch and English, y,
'lth. maybe. dash of buffalo as they
wandered westward, gave this stock q 10
Cosmopolitan character that was repre T.
ehtatiVe, perhaps. but hardly profira -,
le III
Lack OF care by farmers. with no W.
to point the way to inn ca
fovement brought about a tyne of w
hlmal that Il century Las not vet ba
cen able to absorb" oo
In the years from 17GO to 1887 there ho
as an awakening. That was the ora IN
the fermentive stage of anglo Saxon NJ,
lttle breeding ,rr
1t was in 1850 that Robert Bakeweu th,
7san the operations which left SO
sting an impress upon the cattle
'eedlns business. He was the first {.
an TO practice systematic inbreednr. q
round his name those of all rreot re1
lprovers of live stock group them do,
ives, and from the lessons he tanpbt liu
example every breeder to this day mi
arms the fundamentals of his craft on,
t1e was a Le1cestershire man. given owe
Tie 10 talking. and not at all to writ oft
ABOUT his methods. A great deal con
at he learned by careful eXperiment -.
Kept to himself ,di
l.,,, .iin was. 10 secure cattle that qui
sa, W the SMALLEST amount thu
"nu the great success of his this
was revealed only by what he did for
not by what he told anybody to do. clea
us secret Mr.. Rommel describes as is :
breeding IN the hands of a MASTER linh
surest way known to secure an the
provenent of stock. v,o