80 
WINTERING DURHAM CATTLE, 
liberty in our May No., when we inserted the pedi¬ 
gree of Mr. Bates’ bull, Duke of Northumberland, 
of England, and we trust that Col. Sherwood will 
pardon us for doing the same with Archer. For 
some account of a visit made to this stock see Vol. 
I. page 303 of this paper. 
As to a monthly republication, selected from 
foreign agricultural periodicals, we should be glad 
to undertake it if we could have sufficient encour¬ 
agement 10 do so; but it would not pay at present; 
the times are too hard, and the public too indiffer¬ 
ent to solid agricultural reading-matter. 
For the Amerrican Agriculturist. 
WINTERING DURHAM CATTLE. 
Auburn , April 21th , 1843. 
A. B. Allen, Esq., Sir : I herewith send you a 
cut of my bull Archer and his pedigree, for inser¬ 
tion in your paper. 
Durham Bull, Archer.—(Fig. 19.) 
The property of Col. J. M. Sherwood, of Auburn , N. F. 
Pedigree. —Archer got by Rolla, dam Adeliza, 
by Frederick (1060); d. 2, Adelia, by Orpheus 
(473); d. 3, Alfrida, by Alfred (23); d. 4, Straw¬ 
berry, by Windsor (698); d. 5, Old Daisy, by Fa¬ 
vorite (252); d. 6,-by Punch (531); d. 7, 
—-- by Hubback (319). 
1 Rolla, got by Patriot (2,412), dam Romp, by 
Admiral (1608); d. 2, Moss Rose, by Young Den¬ 
ton (963); d. 3, Rosa, by Young Denton (963); 
d. 4, Ruby, by Denton (198); d. 5, Old Red Rose, 
by Trunnell (659). 
& Archer proves himself a fine sire. Since you 
were with me, Stella and Lily have both calved 
with heifers, and they are superior to anything I 
ever saw. Lily’s calf by May Duke you know 
was an improvement upon Lily, but her new heifer 
calf Lois goes far beyond her. Stella’s calf is the 
best she ever had. 
When you were with me, I was feeding straw 
and corn-stalks. I continued that feed until 1st 
February, when having fed all my straw and stalks, 
I commenced on hay; but I would have been per¬ 
fectly satisfied to have continued to feed straw and 
stalks until this time, as my cattle were in good 
condition when these were out. I am confident 
that this feed would have kept them in the same 
condition all winter. Two heifers you remember 
were in the yard, and they have continued there 
up to this time. Since I have done feeding straw 
and stalks, they have not had anything to eat, ex¬ 
cept such litter as has been thrown out of my sta¬ 
ble from under the cattle. I found after a while 
this was keeping them better than I wished, and 
I then directed that they should not have any more 
litter placed where they could get at it, and now 
they live on the twigs of my apple-tree trimmings. 
My native cows I have fed better than my Dur- 
hams, but they are not in as good condition. I 
have kept Durhams two winters, side by side with 
the native cattle, and I am confident that I can 
keep three Durhams to two natives of the same 
size. 
