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Mr. Renick, the agent of the Ohio Cattle Company, who 

 went to England to purchase for iheni. said of Belvedere, 

 that " he was the best onJ finest bull he ever saw in Eng- 

 land or America." Tha Itcst cow which 1 saw in Mr. Bates* 

 herd was not a Duchess, und was not got by i\ Duchess bull; 

 hui u)a.s by Belvedere, (1706.) The poorest of the whole 

 herd whs a Duchess, and was got by a Duchess bull. The 

 only olhur Duchess cxiw, ^ot by a Duchess bull, was a very 

 8U|ierior cow. These two last were equal in Duel 

 and yet. iheir produce were like themselves — fr 

 pcrinr one, superior, from the inferior one, inferior. 



Oxford premium cow, the dam of Mr. Vnira imported 

 Duke of Wellington, (3654.) was got by Duke of Cleveland. 

 (1937.) Her half-sister Oxford, id, was got by Short-tail, 

 (2621.) Short-lnil and Duke of Cleveland had the same pre- 

 cise atriOUjU of Duchess blood, and of course Oxford premium 

 cow and her half-siater Oxford, 2d, had also the ^ame precise 

 amount of Duchess blood. Vet Mr. Bales never kept on 

 his place any thing out of Oxford premium cow, which lie 

 could sell : never used a buW out of Oxford jiremhun row, 

 for any purpose, even to get steers. He7i€ver sold an animal 

 out of Oxford, 2d, at all — and in a letter to Mr. Vail, print- 

 ed in the American Agriculturf^t, he says he would not sell 

 her produce, of which he then had ionr, for five hundred 

 guineas [$2,500] each ; nor, indeed, would he sell thera at 

 any price. The full brother and the sons of Oxford, 2d he 

 used to his whole herd, except herself and her daughters. 

 And Mr. Bates was right ; for Oxford, 2d, and all her pro- 

 tiuce are vastly superior to Oxford premium cow and her 

 produce. 



Mr. Vail commissioned mc, when in England, to select 

 from Mr. Bates' herd a young bull. I could not get for him 

 such H one as I approved, at a suiting price ; and I did not 

 therefore execute the commission. Mr. Bates oftercd me 

 a bull calf, by 2J Earl of Beverly, (596:3.) —a good Duch- 

 ess bull — dam Oxford, 4lh, by Duke of Northumberland, 

 (1940.) grmidani O.iford prernimn cow. but a regard for Mr. 

 Vail's interest made me refuse the otVer. though the price 

 suited^ I sow the calf's dam: I saw Mr. Bates' optTtio/i, as 

 shown by his practice, and acted accordingly, and refused 

 the calf. 



J have cited these peculiar examples, to show by animals 

 having Duchess blood, the ulter absurdity of Mr. Chap- 

 man's notions of breeding. I have compared animals to 

 show his errors, and lie set me the example. I have cn7i- 

 fuied myself, in viy compnrismi, to the blood that he selects 

 for his comparisons, and have, like Mr. C, quoted Mr. 

 Bates' opinions, as printed, as practical ones. 



Having refuted the positions of Mr. Chapman, shown him 

 hia error, and proved thai my position may be true, and not 

 in consequence of the reasons he assigns; let me state what 

 my words so often quoted do mean, what they were iittend- 

 ed to mean, and what they only can be made to mean, by any 

 construction of the words of the sentence. 1 mean and on- 

 ly mean, that 3d Duke of Cambridge v^ill impart Mr. Bates' 

 blood, in some degree, more or less ; that in himself he is 

 the bull having the most "style, quality, symmetry and 

 substance," of all the bulls that have ever come to America 

 from Mr. Bates' herd; that he will get produce with more 

 "style, quality, symmetry, and substance." th.in any bull 

 from Mr. Bates' herd in America. i\ow I meunt //jw, and 

 Tiothijig 7/uire; and not that he had or would impa.t more 

 Dnchess blood. 



Mr. Chapman does not pretend lo deny my positions, 

 when construed as I have here set them forth. /A' makes 

 anoiher isKue. 1 admit that Mr. Vail's Wellington has more 

 Duchess blood than Cambridge. I never thought he had 

 not, never said hu had not; and never \vroie nor spoke a 

 f^entence that would in any manner directly or indirectly in- 

 dicuite such a thing ; and should not, and but from miscon- 

 ception, I never would perhaps have been charged, direcily 

 or by deduciion, with the assertion, thai *' from Mr. Sher- 

 wood, find fwin him alone, the Duchess blood ciin be pro- 

 cured," in this country ; nor wiih tho assertion, direct or 

 consequential, " that Cambridge has more Duchess Mood 

 than any bull of Mr. Bales' breeding in America." 



Mr. Chapman institutes a comparison between Mr. Vail's 

 animals and Camhriilge. in point erf Durhess bloody gi^'i'ig 

 pedigrees. I could iuvest/s^uCe lUv-iC pi'di;;rees, and will here- 

 after. We wisely mnkes 7j« comparison iK'tuccu those ani- 

 mals in their 7*/tp/47C(i/ chnnicler. 1 c^iulil. but will not jww, 

 but will hereafter. 1 will merely .sjy, ihal excellence in the 

 phyiiical animal consists of" style, quality, symmetry and 

 substance ," and excellence in blood consists in having good 

 blood, unmixed with bad blood; and as liko begcU like, it is 



necessary that aniinals sliould fmve their descent, not only from 

 pure blood, but from anhnaXs who were characterised by physi- 

 cal excellence. I know Mr. Bates' herd, and certainly am 

 not to be instructed in the excellence of Mr. Bates' Duchess 

 tribe, by those who have never seen a single animal of it. 

 Mr. Chapman has stated matters lo which I now make no 

 allusion; bul I beg to assure him that I will return to thera 

 hereafter, when it will be more proper to discuss them than 

 now. and when 1 shall not be charged, as I have been, with 

 views and purposes which I have never entertained. A. 

 SrKVENS. — February. ItioO. 



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In the engraving, A is the force pump, fastened to 

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