No. 11. 



Patriot. 



845 



PATRIOT. 



Patriot, Roan, calved in 1804. Bred by G. Coates, By Duffield. 

 G. d. Milbank, by Christopher Holmes's Bull. 



Dam by Haughton. 



This engraving is from a superb coloured mezzotinto print, by William Ward, from a 

 painting from the life, by Thomas Weaver ; dedicated to Lord Yarborough, President of the 

 Agricultural Society for the division of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 1810. 



Patriot was the sire of many very valuable individuals of the short-horn breed of cattle 

 in England, and was himself sold for five hundred guineas. From a cross with such an 

 animal, stock has been raised which at two years old have been sold to the butciiers at 

 astonishingly high prices; ihe'ir early maturity and capacity to continue growing, rendering 

 them the most valuable stock for the farmer and grazier. — This characteristic has excited 

 the wonder and obtained the approbation of every one not blinded by interest or prejudice. 

 Mr. Nesham, of Houghton-le-spring, fatted a short-horn steer, which, at 25 months old, was 

 completely covered with fat over the whole carcass — supposed to be the fattest steer of his 

 age ever seen, and estimated to weigh 1050 lbs. Mr. Arrowsmith, of Ferryhill, feeds off 

 his short-horns at two years old, and has obtained from the butchers as high a price as $95 

 a head — the time of selling from the beginning to the latter end of May : in the first winter 

 he feeds with straw and turnips, in a fold yard; in May they go to grass, and return to hay 

 and turnips in the fold yard in November, for the winter: sold in the following May fiom 

 grass. Mr. Bailey observes, the common practice amongst breeders of tiie improved short- 

 horns is, to put the year-old heifers to the bull the beginning of July, so as to calve not later 

 than the middle of May; the calves run with and suck their dams until August; the cows 

 are then put upon after-grass, and are fed through the winter with turnips, and are sold to 

 the butcher in May or June following on an average of $125 a head — which, with the value 

 of the calf, cannot be estimated at less than $150 for a three year old heifer. Mr. Walton, 

 in Teesdale, sells his steers at two years and a quarter old for $100 to $125 a head, fed 

 solely on vegetable food: he has often, for the sake of experiment, bought in calves of the 

 common breed, and uniformly found that his own, at two years old, were fatter and more fit 

 for the butcher, than the others at three, although kept and fed exactly alike. Mr. Coates 

 slaughtered a heifer which, fed on turnips and hay only, weighed, at two years and two 

 months old, nine hundred and fifty-two pounds. Mr. John Rennie, of Phantasie, produced 

 at the East Lothian Agricultural Society's meeting, in November, 1823, a steer from 18 to 

 20 months old, the four quarters of which weighed 118 stones, 1 lb., (8 lbs. to the stone), or 

 945 lbs. lie also exhibited before the Highland Society of Scotland, a steer, aged 2 years 

 and 4 months, the four quarters of which weighed 1231 lbs. (153 stones, 7 lbs. — 8 lbs. to the 

 etone). — Youatl''s Treat, on Cattle. 



