ON BREEDING BULLS. 
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make them valuable. The number of deplorable injuries inflicted 
by ferocious bulls is too general to be insisted upon ; and the con- 
tinual terror they everywhere produce is a manifest reason for 
breeders to make good temper and a tranquil disposition a main 
point. That this property is within the reach of breeders, cannot 
be doubted ; it may, however, be some time before it can be 
accomplished : but if the work is never begun, the state and 
vicious temper of our bulls will, of course, remain the same as 
they are now. 
Notwithstanding the different breeds of domestic animals on 
the continent are exceedingly inferior to ours in many requisite 
properties, yet it is due to the breeders in those countries to ac- 
knowledge that a fine docile temper and disposition is one of the 
main points they attend to. The Society of Arts has given their sil- 
ver medal to a candidate for an ingenious contrivance to fix on the 
horns of vicious bulls — a plate with a description of which is re- 
corded in their valuableTransactions — with a view to prevent those 
so disposed from committing any violence. Where there are horns, 
and those strong enough to bear the weight and use of the con- 
trivance, it is no doubt advantageous : but there are numbers of 
bulls which nature has not provided with horns, and others that are 
so small and weak as to render this invention of no use. To root 
out the cause of an evil is far better than to contend with it when 
present. On this principle it appears to me, that if the agricul- 
tural meetings were either to offer their medal or premium in 
some way or other, or to publish in their Transactions the means 
which they consider would correct this great and growing evil, and 
with a view to induce agricultural societies to bestow medals or 
rewards on the production of satisfactory testimonials of an animal 
of good and docile temper having been used as a stock-bull a spe- 
cified time, this might eventually be of great public utility. 
The following narrative will notify where the basis of so ex- 
cellent a superstructure may commence. The other day, on 
looking over the well-arranged and well-managed portion of the 
agricultural department of the Little Park, at Windsor, a fine 
short-horned bull, in the shafts of a cart, attracted my attention. 
Mr. Ingal, the judicious manager of that establishment, ob- 
served that he was truly valuable, not only as the best and most 
useful slave about the premises, being in the continual practice^of 
drawing from two to three tons weight in a cart alone, but as an 
animal possessed of the finest temper possible. Mr. Ingal, in 
continuing his narration, said that on one occasion he was turned 
into an adjoining pasture with another bull, when one of the 
farming men, in his usual occupation, had occasion to pass not 
far from them : one of the bulls commenced a furious attack on 
