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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



LIarch 



SHORT-HOKN BULL OF DAIRY STOCK. 



According to the statistics of our Brighton 

 cattle market reporter, of the 129,353 cattle 

 ■which were sold in 1869, 86,365 were West- 

 ern; in 1865 of 117,866 sold, 38,233 were 

 Western. Showing an increase in receipts of 

 Western cattle from less than one-third, four 

 years ago, to over two-thirds of all the stock 

 offered the past year. To supply this rapidly 

 increasing demand, the farmers of the West 

 make a specialty of raising "steers," as those 

 of New York and New England do of the 

 dairy. 



For these two purposes, different races of 

 cattle are required, or at least different fami- 

 lies of the same breed, — those that have been 

 reared with special reference to the develop- 

 ment of particular qualities. Thus, some 

 families of the Short-horns have been bred to 

 a comparatively high degree of excellence for 

 the dairy, while others have been bred with 

 special reference to the perfection of those 

 points which please the butcher. 



At the West, where farmers care less for 

 milk, much attention is paid to the beef pro- 

 ducing qualities. For this purpose there is 

 no breed equal to the Short-korns. Mr. Al- 

 len, in his American cattle, from which our 

 cut is copied, says, that the early importations 



of Short-horns into the United States, say 

 fifty years ago, were those chiefly of which the 

 cows excelled as milkers ; but when the Ohio 

 Company sent to England, in the year 1834, 

 for a herd of Short-horns with which to im- 

 prove the Western herds, flesli was their chief 

 object, and they sought such cattle as showed 

 that tendency more than the other, although 

 some of the cows which they brought out, and 

 many of their descendants, as we have known 

 from personal observation and experience, 

 proved remarkable milkers, both in quantity 

 and quality. From the Ohio importation of 

 1834, the successive importations have been 

 mostly of that description — full fleshed, of 

 rapid growth, great development, and early 

 maturity — so much so that the modern style of 

 Short-horns appear widely different from the 

 old style. 



The above cut, which shows wonderful ful- 

 ness in every part of the carcass, with flesh 

 in places where the common cattle fail to 

 give it, thus making the animal valuable all 

 over, with no more offal than in an animal of 

 a third less size of an inferior breed, is a 

 good illustration of the modern style of beef 

 producing Short-horns. 



