[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by D. D. T. MOOHE, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, j 
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some of the money they have expended 
in England the past twenty years will be 
returned to them. 
EXPORTING SHORT-HORNS TO ENGLAND. 
It seems somewhat like carrying coals to 
New Castle, but American breeders are 
sending choice animals 
from their herds to Old 
England. New York 
breeders have already !■ 
sent animals that have 
won marked attention IvMXuWdh-fi ipl 
from the breeders of the 
Motherland. The last 
export of this sort is by 
Richard Gibson, Esq., ?!'«$$$«<: \imlm 
London, Canada, who wMrlMvJh 
has just shipped nine ' 
head of American thor- f 
ough-bred Short-Horns, 
purchased in this coun- 
try for English account, 
for breeding purposes. 
The herd consists of six y» 
Princesses, two Dutch- 
esses and one Duke, bred 
Conger," Walburg Stud 
Farm, Haverstraw, N. tffijr 
Y.; Messrs. Pratt, trfW 
Brattlcboro, Mr. Wink- v'«T - - 
low, Putney, Vt.; and tS| wjW WJ 
Mr. Cowan of Galt, Can- fw (ml 
ada. Mr. Gibson, who Iff Ml t,JA* 
is largely engaged in the \*1 fy/wlNiiC* 
business, says there will 
continue to be a steady 
draft upou our home 
breeders for American- — 
bred Short-Horns, with __ 
the view of improving 
the original 
stock in the 
slight sigus of — 
deterioration, 
which, it ap¬ 
pears, is hap¬ 
pily prevent- == 
ed by QTOS&ing 
foreign or dis- 
a 1 in o s t a s . .. - — 
marked an ef- ^ v ' 
feet as that of V ^ 'K H*- 
an entire uew s W 
cross. This ^ 
ought to en- v ^- 
courage our vW 
American -- '■ „ 
breeders to 
hope that 
ABORT ION IN COWS. 
W. R. Duncan of Towanda, 
a very successful Btock breeder, 
Illinois, 
says in 
his own hei'd he cduld never discover any 
cause for abortion except the general de¬ 
ficiency of lime in the soil and water, there 
being no limestone there; and he has sup¬ 
plied this deficiency by supplying his salt 
troughs with slaked lime and bone meal. 
Since then ho has not had a case of it. He 
says: — When a cow or mare has aborted 
once or more, a short time before the peri¬ 
od of the former occurrence after concep¬ 
tion, I begin to feed a small quantity of 
hemp seed each week—say from one pint to 
one quart—mixed with their feed, which 
they eat readily. This should be kept up 
till near the time of de- 
- livery. With this rem- 
edy I liavo not failed 
one single time in ilf- 
lyljMeM^Sra teen years, neither lias 
any one ever told me 
iff| OJ | that it failed for them 
that I gave it to. 
./Alb-OiLbtJNTIS'ir OR JA3itSi£i‘Y BULL. 
1 
KH 
||11 
mm 
K A' 
ALDERNEY OR JERSEY 
\\| a 
OOW. 
ALDERNEY OR JER¬ 
SEY CATTLE. 
The Channel Island 
cattle, popularly known 
as Alderneys, consist 
of two classes—Guern¬ 
sey and Jersey, The 
Guernsey is the lar¬ 
ger of the two, usually 
a light fawn color. The 
Alderney (e m l> racing 
theso two classes) is a 
cream and batter pro¬ 
ducing breed, giving 
more milk, and of rich¬ 
er quality in proportion 
to its size, than any oth¬ 
er cow. The late Fish¬ 
er Hours, at the great 
International Exhibi¬ 
tion of live stock in Pa¬ 
ris, in 1805, where nearly 
all the ox tribe of Eu¬ 
rope were represented, 
came to the conclusion 
that the Alderneys 
probably descended 
from the Swiss moun¬ 
tain breeds, 
of which ma- 
^ ny specimens 
! were exhibit- 
light fawn in 
color and fine 
in head and 
claimed that 
finer speci¬ 
mens of the 
Alderney 
breed have 
been produc¬ 
ed in England 
thau on the 
Islands, in 
conseque noe 
cation of the 
principles of 
which are 
better under- 
lus t r a t i o n s 
' of English 
j bred Alder- 
j neys. In cou- 
\ noction we 
give the scale 
J Alderney o r 
T J ersey cattlo, 
i adopted by 
the Jersey 
Agricultural 
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NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y, JUNE 8, 1872. 
4 PRICE SIX CENTS. 
1 $2.50 PER YEAR. 
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