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breed, at prices equally high, give no equivocal attestation to 

 the estimation of the stock, at those periods, by the most 

 enlightened and enterprising breeders in England. Since that 

 time, sagacious and public-spirited gentlemen continued their 

 attention to the still farther improvement of the breed, either 

 for the dairy or the shambles, until, as Martin says " they were 

 everywhere spreading, and their value was generally appre- 

 ciated, and it may reasonably be expected that in a few years, 

 they will either supersede or greatly modify the old breeds of 

 most of the English grazing and breeding districts." 



From the stock of Mr. Charles Colling, descended that 

 famous Short-born bull, " Young Denton," reared by Mr. John 

 Wetherel, a breeder of much eminence, and imported about 

 thirty years since, into this county, by Stephen Williams, Esq., 

 a former vice-president of this society. This bull was of the 

 " Teeswater celebrity," known as the improved Durhams, 

 eminently characterized by Mr. Cully, another English writer 

 of admitted authority, " for the quantity of milk which they 

 give, beyond any other breed." There are instances cited, of 

 cows yielding thirty-six quarts of milk per day, while it is said 

 that twenty-four quarts is but the usual quantity. Martin 

 records the case of a single cow, on which the experiment was 

 made, which returned three hundred and seventy-nine pounds 

 of butter in the space of thirty-two weeks — the lowest weekly 

 amount being seven pounds, the highest, sixteen. The milk 

 during the time averaged nearly twenty quarts per day. Her 

 food, grass and cut clover, until the turnip season, but the 

 pasture was not of first-rate quality. 



There is reason to believe that of late years, in England, in 

 the breeding of Short-horn cattle, the interest of the grazier 

 has prevailed over that of the dairyman, and maturity at an 

 early age, with aptitude to fatten, »have been more regarded 

 than milking properties. A distinguished gentleman, an active 

 and public-spirited officer of our own society, recently in that 

 country, has said, that, after diligent inquiry, he was unable 

 to find, for purchase, a single thorough-bred improved Shoit- 

 horn of the Teeswater strain ; and he was informed that, even 

 in the valley of the Tees, they had been suffered to run out or 

 had been intentionally bred into stock for size and greatest 

 demand in the beef market. Although the milking quality has 



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