1849. 



THE GENESEE PARMER. 



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meocing the dairy business, and 00, to 



expend it all in Durham cow.- al (150 each; but we 

 would advise him it he keeps much stock or intends 

 ■ purchase a first rate Durham bull, although it 

 might COBl $300. Make up the rest of your herd 

 with the best common cows von can purchase, and 

 by a judicious use of this hull with such chan 



ion may require, we doubt not in a tew years 

 you will find, (by carefully raising your heifer calves 

 and disposing of your older cows,) th I your 



herd greatly increased, and the sum expended for the 

 bull, a profitable investment. Friend A. (J. P. erred 

 a little in his calculations in not reckoning lb 

 of the calves into his account. A good Durham 

 call is worth from *.")0 to $300 when quite young. 

 It he iiad counted them worth only the smaller sum, 

 it would have ma le a little difference in his figures. 

 We can hardly think that A. G. P. would suppose 

 any one so foolish as to pay $150 for a Durham cow,, 

 and then " deacon" her calves! This would be folly 

 in the extreme. At the time of Mr. Prentice's sale 

 in *4o, one 'null calf, Tecumseh, out of Charlotte, 

 and another, Duke, out of Matilda, sold for $200 

 each. Mr. Vail has sold all his bull calves from his 

 La /:/ Barringlon, III, two in number, for $300 

 each when quite j tung. Col. Jaques, before referred 

 to, has sold some of his full bloods, when 8 months 

 old, for $300. 



There has been no time in England since the sale 

 of the Collingss, that the short horns have been in 

 greater demand, or brought better prices than at the 

 present. Mr. Bates, (the breeder of Mr. Vail's 

 Duke of Wellington and Lady Barrington III,) last 

 year let a bull to serve a small herd of cows for 

 seventeen weeks, for over one thousand dollars. The 

 short horns belonging to Earl Spencer's estate were 

 sold last year. Eighty-eight animals brought the 

 round sum of $28,717. One bull sold for $2,100. 

 We mention these facts merely as a proof, that, in 

 the words of Mr. Allen, " where they have been 

 bred longest they are liked best," and to show the 

 value that is there placed upon this noble breed of 

 cattle. Clockville, Mad. Co., JY. Y., Feb., 1849. 



BREEDING HORSES. 



The " Vermont Agriculivrisi" for January, 1849, 

 contains an article with the above head. As that 

 paper has been discontinued, I am under the neces- 

 sity of asking you to insert in the Farmer the fol- 

 lowing reply to the article alluded to. 



The writer in the Agriculturist says — " The horses 

 whose stock in this State have proved superior, were 

 without an exception, thorough-bred horses. * * * 

 The four horses that have been most celebrated in 

 the State, are the ' Morgan,' the ' Cock of the Rock,' 

 the 'Magnum Bonum,' and the 'Old Telescope.' 

 The Morgan stock has, as a general thing, been most 

 noted. The pedigree of the original Morgan goes 

 directly back through 'True Briton' and imported 

 'Othello,' to 'Musgrove's Arabian' and 'Childers'." 



In relation to these statements, the first question 

 that arises is, What constitutes a thorough-bred 

 horse ? Perhaps it will be replied, the English race 

 horse. And this answer may for the present be 

 received as correct, without stopping to inquire into 

 the origin of the race-h Ma . 



Is it then true, that the four horses named were 

 thorough-bred? Take them in order: First, the 

 Morgan, whose stock the writer of the article in the 



ulturiat says '■ ' . 

 mosl noted," (a conclusion, by the by, which I think 



will not be disputed.) WU he a thorough-bred 



horse '. I lis sire is admitted to have be< 



'ii or Beautiful Bay, obtained (stolen 



it is said) from Gen. .1 IMB8 l>' Li -> '• • oj 

 \ Ork. There have b I horses by the 



of True Briton. What was the blood of the one 

 mentioned? The late .Ions Morgan, of Lima. \. 

 V.. stated, (see Albany Cultivator, vol. ix, p. 110,) 

 that h ol by the imported horse Traveller*, 



(Morton's Traveller.) Mr. M. kept him m 

 year-, during which time he begot the old or original 

 Morgan horse. But the writer in the Agriculturist, 

 says the sire of the original Morgan was imported 

 Othello! Where is the evidence of it ' The true 

 Briton, by Othello was on the turf and won matches 

 in 1765-6. (Am. Turf Register, vol. vi, p. 5.) 

 The old Morgan was foaled in 1793. Is it probable 

 he was got by a horse so old as to have run t 

 twenty-right years before? 



But admit that the sire of the old Morgan horse 

 was a full blood race-horse. What was his dam ? 

 John Morgan, (before named,) states that she was 

 got by a horse called "Diamond:" he by "the Church 

 horse;" and he by the imported "Wild-air." Noth- 

 ing is said by Morgan of the blood of the grand- 

 dam of the Morgan horse, or the blood of the dam 

 of "the Church horse." The inference is, therefore, 

 that they were of the common or cold blood. The 

 dam of " Diamond" is said to have been an "imported" 

 mare. (See Albany Cultivator for 1846, p. 19.) 

 " Wild-air" was a well known English race-horse. 

 Now if he begot " the Church horse" on a common 

 mare, the latter horse would of course have been half 

 blood; if "the Church horse" begot "Diamond" on 

 a full blood mare, he would have been three-fourths 

 blood; and the latter horse having begotten the dam 

 of the old Morgan on a common mare, she would 

 have been three-eighths blood. Hence, if True 

 Briton was a full blood or thorough-bred horse, the 

 old Morgan, inheriting half or eight-sixteenths of his 

 blood, and three-sixteenths other racing blood, (from 

 his dair:,) would have been eleven-sixteenths blood. 

 Does this make a thorovgh-bred horse ? 



The writer in the Agriculturist next gives what 

 he calls the pedigree of "Cock of the Rock." — 

 He says he was got by Duroc; his dam by imported 

 Messenger. But is this such a pedigree as would 

 satisfy a breeder of blood horses ? Admit that Lruioc 

 and Messenger were thorough-bred horses — (though 

 it is well known to turf-men that there is a flaw in 

 the pedigree of the former) — is the case then made 

 out, that this "Cock of the Rock" was thorough- 

 bred ? On the side of his sire his pedigree may be 

 accepted. His dam was half Messenger; but what 

 was his grand-dam ? According to this " pedigree," 

 "Cock of the Rock" was half Duroc and a quarter 

 Messenger — that's all. Does this make a thorough- 

 bred horse ? 



He then rrocs on with " Magnum Bonum,' 1 who he 

 says was "sired" by imported Magnum Bonum; but 

 his dam is not even mentioned: and according to this 

 statement he was only half-blood ! This is the third 

 of his "thorough-bred" hor 



As to "Tele-cope," the fourth horse mentioned, it 

 is merely stated that hi I [in 



the same way the others are traced ?] back to the 

 highest strains of English blood." 



Comment on such " pedigrees" is unnecessary. * f 



