GALLOWAY CATTLE.-ASPARAGUS BEDS, ETC. 
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GALLOWAY CATTLE. 
The cut below represents a cow of the celebrat¬ 
ed Scotch Highland or Galloway breed. This va¬ 
riety is generally of a black color, and without 
horns. It is considered among the most ancient breeds 
of Great Britain, and one of the hardiest, thriftiest, 
most docile, and most profitable. Many thousands 
are annually bred among the Highlands of Scotland, 
where they remain till two or three years old, and 
are then bought up by tfie drovers and driven to the 
richer pastures and milder climate of England. 
Here they usually remain from six months to a 
year, and are then taken to the London market. 
Their meat is considered the finest in England, and 
commands from half a cent to two cents more per 
pound than any other kind. They are acknow¬ 
ledged, upon the whole, to be the most profitable beast 
to their cost. Horned cattle are sometimes so dan" 
gerous to each other and to persons, as they move 
along the roads in large droves, that they have oc¬ 
casionally become objects of dread, and a public 
nuisance. Another serious objection to them, is, 
that they cannot be packed so close when trans¬ 
ported in railroad cars and in water craft j and thus 
it costs more to get them to market. 
We notice that Youatt, Lowe, and other British 
wri ters say ; that attempts have been made to improve 
the Galloways by a cross of the Short-Horn bull 
without success. This positive assertion needs 
qualification. We were informed, when in Eng¬ 
land, that this was true only so far as regards the 
larger and coarser families of Short Horns; but where 
a very fine-boned bull of good points and medium 
size was resorted to for one cross, and the Gallo- 
for the grazier and butcher that is reared and fat- 1 ways then bred back again, it was attended with 
marked success. By 
this means, the descend¬ 
ants had gained in sym¬ 
metry of form and 
handling, and in earlier 
maturity; and lost noth¬ 
ing in hardiness nor 
in the superior quality 
their of beef. This cross, 
after the second genera¬ 
tion, rarely showed a 
vestige of Short-Horn 
blood—except in supe¬ 
riority of form. 
We know very few 
of the pure black Gal¬ 
loway breed in the 
United States. The 
> only reason that they 
have not oftener been 
imported, is, that the 
Americans are preju¬ 
diced against their 
color. They do not like 
black, neither do they 
like white ; but they 
like to make money, 
and yet their prejudices 
are so strong that the coveted dollar, thus far, has 
not been able to overcome them. 
We take leave of the subject by quoting the fol¬ 
lowing nursery rhymes, in which will be found as 
much sound sense as in the prejudices of Brother 
Jonathan :— 
“I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell— 
But this I know, I’m sure, full well, 
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.” 
Dt. 
The Galloway Cow.—Fig. 21. 
The cows give a moderate 
tened in Great Britain, 
mess of rich milk. 
This breed has been greatly improved in Scot¬ 
land within a few years past: and the finest and 
best of them are now little inferior in point of form 
to the celebrated Short Horns. Being of medium 
size, hardy, quick to mature, of fine points, and so 
superior for beef, we have often recommended them 
to our countrymen, as a highly valuable race to 
propagate in the colder latitudes, and among the 
hilly and mountainous districts of the United States. 
They can endure short pastures; and are so active, 
that 'they get about with greater ease than the 
larger sorts. We speak from our own knowledge, 
having often seen them in England, and conversed 
with the graziers and butchers respecting their mer¬ 
its, and in comparison with other breeds. 
Polled or hornless cattle should be bred in re¬ 
mote districts in preference to any other, for the 
reason that they ore polled. To grow horns, ex- 
Danger of Sleeping near Burning Lime 
Kilns. —During the process of lime burning, car¬ 
bonate of lime is decomposed by means of heat, and 
carbonic acid driven off. Hence the fatal effects 
which have resulted from persons incautiously ly¬ 
ing down to sleep near burning lime kilns. 
Asparagus Beds.— Asparagus beds may be made 
four feet wide, trenched three feet deep, and liber¬ 
ally supplied with well decomposed farm-yard ma- 
hausts the soil more rapidly than growing flesh nure. Three rows may be planted in each bed« 
alone • and they are of but little value in comparison with the plants nine inches apart in the rows. 
