THE GENESEE FARMER, 



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Duke of Northumberland. After giving the pedigree j 

 of this bull, Mr. Bates says:— [ 



■'The u-lw/e of thi« fuir.ily" ( Duchfts family, S, P. C j 

 '* of Shon-hoi-ns tire atune m my possession, huviiig pu - 

 ciiased my original cow of Ihis tribe of eatlle of the iatc 

 Cliarles CoJiJn;,', I eq. . of Ketton, near Uariingtoa, a5 years 

 ago. Ttioy Imii ► een in liie possession tif Mr. C. Colling. 

 yo years, who purchuseU his or/^/yi^r^ toaj^i-om IStamvix, of 

 the agent of the lale Hiike of iNorlhumberland, nnJ called 

 her liiiclx.-,^, (whicli is the rc:ison I have named the bull after 

 thill finiily,) :is they iire justly entitled to be held ill cora- 

 niemuralioa f«ir having imssessed a tiiOe of cattle which Mr. 

 t_'. Colling repeatedly assured me was the best he ever had or 

 fi'f/- juio, and iliut lie was never able to improve upon her, 

 uhhongh put lo his best btitls^ And I ha\e undoubted infor- 

 mation from the best authority for saying that this tribe of 

 ISlion-horiifl. were in the jossession of the ancestors of the 

 firesent duke, for two ceiduries , and that ?>ir Hugh Smythson, 

 tike grandfather of the present duke, kept up the celebrity uf 

 this tribe of cattle by paying the utmost attention to their 

 biceding . and that ne used regularly to weigh his cattle and 

 the food they ale, to ascertain the improvemeiU made irt pro- 

 portioft to Hie food evnsutned; a syeteni I adopted nearly 50 

 years ago, not knowing that it had been previously done; 

 and -from a nnnuie and close attention to this subject, 1 

 olitaijied tlittt knowledge of cattle, uhieh enabled me to 

 judge of their real merUs by tkeir external characters — and 

 which I have never found lo fail in my experience for above 

 forty years as a breeder. From that knowledge, thus 

 acquired, 1 selected (his tribe of t'!*hort-horn3 aa super'wr to 

 all other rattle, not only as small consumers of food, but as 

 great growers and quick graziers, with the iinest quality of 

 beef, and also giving a great quantity of very rich milk. The 

 cow 1 bought of Mr. C. Colling, in lUUl, calved at Halton 

 Castle, in Northumberland, June 7th, 18U7; she was kept 

 on grass only, in a pasture with nineteen other cows, and 

 made in butter aiad milk ibr some nionths, above Iko guineas 

 per week, or J art yl mo shillings in Englisli muney.'' 



We have in this extract, the opinion of Mr. Bates 

 himself, in regard to the Duchess blood, as being 

 superior to alt other — also confirmed by the opinion 

 of Mr. Charles Colling, who repeatedly said, it icas 

 th£ best he ever had or ever saw. 



Now, whether this 3d Duke of Cambridge possesses 

 more of such blood, or, if you please, has the blood of 

 Mr. Bates' herd, with " higher characteristics of 

 style, quality, symmetry and substance," than any 

 other bull in this country, a brief reference to pedigree 

 will show. 



" Pedigree of the id Drike of Camtridge, (5942.) Roan, 

 calved September Htli, 1^4], bred by Thomas Bates, pro- 

 perty, ie. Got by Duke of Northumberland [1940]; dam 

 Waterloo IL, by Belvidere [17UC>]; grand dam by Waterloo, 

 [281(;]. g. g. dam by Waterloo, [i;816]." [Coates' Herd 

 liook, 4 vol., page 614.] 



By this pedigree it will be seen that 3d Duke of 

 Cambridge possesses oidy one quurter of Duchess 

 blood — his sire., Duke of Northumberland, being a 

 half Duchess bnll, and his dam Waterloo II, having 

 no Duchess blood in her. 



Among the individuals who have imported slock to 

 this country from the late Mr. Bates' herd, we believe 

 the importalions of Mr. George Vail, of Troy, N. Y., 

 have lieon the most extensive. In 1839 or 40, this 

 gentleman imported direct from Mr. Bates, ahull calf, 

 Duke of Wellington, and a heifer, Duchess. For 

 the purpose of comparison, we insert the pedigree of 

 Duke of Wellington, 55, [3654] asgivenby Mr. Bates. 



" Roan, bred by Mr. Hates, &c. Calved Oct. 24ih, 1839, 

 got by Short-tail. [2li*.}l]; dam Oxford, [having obtained the 

 tirst prize for the best .Short-horned cow, open to all England, 

 m July, 1839. g'ven by tlie Royal English Agricultural .So- 

 ciety,] by Duke of Cleaveland, [1937]; g. d. Matchem cow, 

 by Maiihera, [2281]; g. g. dnm by Young Wynyard. [2859] 

 sometimes called Young Wellington." 

 s By this pedigree it will be seen that Wellington's 

 1 ", Short-tail, was also a half Duchess bull. So 



far then his equality with Cambridge, as to Duchess 

 blood, is established. But if we e.xamine a little 

 farther into this pedigree, we shall find that Welling- 

 ton's dam, Oxford Cow, was aUo got by a /■(///'Duchess 

 bull, Duke of Cleveland. Consequently, the jwWucc 

 of Wellington, from a cow without Duchess blood, 

 would possess nearly as much Duchess blood, as Cam- 

 bridge himself. 



P^r the illustration, and to show the puplic that 

 there are other animals in this country that possess 

 more Duchess blood than Cambridge, we insert the 

 pedigree, in part, of Mr. Vail's Duchess. 



" White— bred by Mr. Bates, &c. Got by Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland [I94UJ, dam Non-such the 2d, by Belvedere 

 [17116], g. dam Non-such by Magnet, [2240.]" &.c. ice. 



Mr. Vail's prize bull, Meteor, 10!, was out of this 

 heifer, and his sire is Duke of Wellington. He has 

 therefore three crosses of the Duchess blood, and so 

 also have the bulls Mr. Vail has sold to Col. Sher- 

 wood, of Auburn, N. Y., (and we can well bear 

 testimony to the worth of this bull. Symmetry, as we 

 have a cow of his get, and a very superior animal she 

 is,) Col, Hampton, of S, C, Messrs. Ferguson and 

 VVetenhall, of C. W., and Thomas Ilillhouse, of 

 Watervleit, N, Y. We might continue this account, 

 as Mr. Vail has three more imported cows, sent him 

 by Mr. Bates, all of which possess strains of the 

 Duchess blood, but we deem it unnecessary. 



We learn by the agricultural papers, that the ivhole 

 of the late Mr. Bates' herd are to be sold the coming 

 spring or summer; and consequently the Djichess 

 tribe which Mr. Bates has always retained exclusively 

 in his possession, will be dispersed in the hands of 

 many. From the enterprise which hiis thus far char- 

 acterized Mr. Vail, as a breeder, we sincerely hope 

 and expect he will not let this opportunity pass without 

 the introduction of one or more animals of the full 

 Duchess blood, into his herd. He has already done 

 much to bring the Bates Stock into deserved reputa- 

 tion in this country, and the benefit which its 

 introduction has conferred upon other Durhams, which 

 have received only a single cross of this strain of 

 blood, is immense. We hope he will now introduce 

 the Duchess blood leithout alloy; and we confidently 

 expect the day would not be far distant, when the price 

 of the American Short-horns, will compare favorably 

 with the high sales of this stock in England. S. P. 

 Chapman.— C/o<:/tw//f, Mad. Co., jV. Y., Dec. 1849. 



JEFFERSOir COUNTY AGRICnLTURAL FAIR. 



We make the following extract from an address 

 delivered before the Jefferson County Agricultural 

 Association at its late Fair, held at Watertown, in 

 this Slate, by Moses Eames, Esq., President. 



'• The Ladies, too, with a laudable spirit of competition 

 and taste, have contribuied handsomely to rendered this an 

 occasion of delightful entertainment. Their presence and 

 cheering smiles, always agreeable, are none the less so when 

 they undertake to illustrate by their deeds the generous im- 

 pulses of their hearts. The wives and daughters of the 

 farmers of Jeflerson county are able to show by their works 

 that they have a common interest and sympathy with their 

 husbands and fathers. It is their pride to exhibit in every 

 room of our dwellings the productions of their industry, 

 taste and skill. Cheerful, free, intelligent and happy at 

 home, they have learned happily to blend all these qualities 

 with industry and frugality, ond wisely to accommodate 

 themselves to the circumstances with which they are sur- 

 rounded. The garden, the door-yard, the kitchen, iZe 

 parlor, all present favorable indications of the character, in- 

 telligence and good taste of our Ladies. More tlian this I 

 need not say: less, in justice to myselfand them, I could uttt.'^ 



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