VITALITY, LONGEVITY, AND FERTILITY. 2I/ 



so with many other English bulls, who were the sires of as good 

 stock in their later as in their earlier years. Among the American 

 tmlls Washington (1566), bred by Mr. Champion, in England, im- 

 ported and owned by Gen. Van Rensselaer, at Albany, N. Y., died 

 at nineteen years old, and held his virility to within a year of his 

 death. Oliver (2387), bred by Col. Powel, of Philadelphia, Pa., and 

 owned in Kentucky, got calves at seventeen years old. Old Splendor, 

 767, A. H. B., bred by Mr. Weddle, in Western New York, got calves 

 after sixteen, and died when seventeen years old. Renick, 903, 

 A. H. B., bred by James Renick, in Kentucky, got calves at fourteen 

 years old, and died soon after, while yet apparently vigorous. Baron 

 of Oxford, 2525, A. H. B., bred by Mr. Thome, of Thorndale, N. Y., 

 died at fifteen years from the effects of an accident by a fall on slip- 

 pery ice when in the act of serving a cow useful to the last. 



Among the aged cows may be named " Duchess, by Daisy bull," 

 bred by Charles Colling, in England, who, after many years of suc- 

 cessful breeding, made an excellent carcass of beef at seventeen 

 years. Many other cows of English breeding attained the age of 

 fifteen to upwards of twenty years. Among the American cows, one 

 belonging to Mr. John G. Dun, of London, Ohio, the name not 

 recollected, had a calf, at seventeen years. Imported Young Mary, 

 by Jupiter (2170), owned in Kentucky, bred fourteen heifer calves 

 and one bull and died at twenty-one years. This is the most remark- 

 able instance of heifer breeding within our knowledge, and more 

 Herd Book pedigrees run into Young Mary than any other half 

 dozen cows of record. Mr. Dun's cow Florida, by Comet, 356 

 (1854), brought her last calf at eighteen years, and nursed and reared 

 it. The Kentucky cow, Catherine Turley, by Goldfinder (2066), 

 lived until eighteen years old; she was then fed off for the butcher, 

 and when slaughtered was found to be in calf. A well-bred cow of 

 the Union Village Shakers, Warren county, Ohio, brought a living 

 heifer calf after she was twenty-one years old. But it is useless to 

 multiply instances of great longevity. We have related these from 

 many others which might be named, had we opportunity to look them 

 up and record them. 



All the Short-horns need is a sufficiency of proper food not forc- 

 ing and sensible treatment in the way of shelter and care to prove 

 them the equals, if not superiors, in fertility and longevity, of any 

 others of the bovine race. 



