166 Remarks on the Cattle Procession, 



the season have not come in. • Repeated experiments 

 with the Kyloes in England, have shown that in one 

 summer, at four years old, they will reach from 500 to 

 700 lbs. weight, with from 70 to 90 lbs. loose fat. 



The^reat misfortune has hitherto been in the United 

 States, as respects cattle, that, although within the last 

 30 years, they have greatly improved in form, owing to 

 judicious crosses bel\^een native stock, and occasionally 

 with foreign breeds that were introduced, yet no blood 

 has been kept so pure, as to enable any one to say he 

 possessed a race with characters so strongly marked, as 

 would insure their transmission to his or her descendants. 

 Our whole procedure in this business, has been a system 

 of chance, and this want of certainty in our crosses has 

 been one reason why so few have hesitated to accept of 

 a high price for a thriving calf, which, had it been raised, 

 might have proved the origin of a valuable breed. It is 

 full time to begin to conduct our operations upon fixed 

 principles, and no time could be more propitious than 

 the present, when a spirit of improvement, which the 

 friends to agriculture have been striving for many years 

 to excite, is diffused through the United States, and when 

 foreign commerce has ceased to offer those allurements, 

 which so powerfully attracted our citizens, and drew off 

 their attention from internal objects. 



[The foregoing paper was published by order of the Society, 

 a few days after it was read, in the National Recorder of Phi- 

 ladelphia, whence it was transferred to the newspapers in 

 Pennsylvania, and the other states. The author feels happy in 

 thinking, that it has been instrumental in directing the attention 

 of the improvers of stock to "the improved short-horns," and 

 to the fine breed of Mr. Champion, several of which have since 

 been imported into different states. Mr. Skinner of Baltimore 

 get the example, by importing a bull and two heifers in May, 

 1822, which were immediately sold to Mr. Lloyd of Wye River, 

 Maryland. They cost about S1500. M,] 



