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VOL. XXXII. No. O.i 
WHOLE No. 1333. I 
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THE CHILLINGHAM WILD CATTLE. 
Though of little value in themselves, prob¬ 
ably none of the numerous breeds of cattle 
now in existence are more interesting as a 
study than the Chillingham wild cattle of 
England. Tiie -e cattle are the last remains 
of numerous herds which formerly roam r d 
over not only Great Britain but Central 
Europe as well. Their interest consists chief¬ 
ly in the fact that from this breed are de¬ 
scended (ho various types and forms of cat¬ 
tle of Europe and America. The change 
from those wild, fierce beasts of small size 
and the smallest milk-producing capacities 
to the stately Short-Horn or Hereford, the 
sleek und graceful Devon, and the not less 
valuable Jersey, Alderney and Holstein, is a 
marked illustrat'on of the influence of care¬ 
ful selection with reference to specific and 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y„ AUG, 7, 1875, 
MAot ot Congress, m the rear IMS. bv n,e Kura. Publish.™ Company, in me ofl.ee of ttT^TrTn'of Con an .„ a. 
J PRICK SIX CENTS. 
I 83.05 PER YEAR. 
breds of any bre D d. It shows that we are 
progressing in breeding at a constantly-ac¬ 
celerating ratio. 
The wild cattle have one merit in their 
great, natural vigor of constitution. Yefc, 
with all this, they are said to bo poor breed¬ 
ers, so that the increase is very small, owing 
in part to the constant warfare among them¬ 
selves, wherein many are killed every year 
in the contests to decide which shall sur¬ 
vive. The only specimens of these cattle in 
England, and probably in the world, are in 
the park of Lord Tankbrville, in Chilling- 
ham. The herd now numbers abort flfty, 
and roams at will through the forests, win¬ 
ter and summer, as did their aticcstors cen¬ 
turies ago. The engraving gives a very good 
view of those cattle, but a more particular 
description of them is as follows .-—Size, 
small; color, white, with reddish -Colored, 
hair on t.bo inside of their oars, and horns 
tipped with black; hoofs are black. The 
wildness in the looks of these animals is fully 
matched in their characters, and is not at oil 
acres are upland and the remainder Genesee 
flats. On the upland he grows a diversity of 
crops for family use and feeding his horses, 
the only stock that receives grain, and had 
some in meadow pasture. His corn, potatoes 
and oats wore fully up to the average among 
grain farmers, but his wheat was not equal 
to other pieces we had visited that day in 
Chili and Wheatland. 
We first looked at a few fat steers he had 
feeding upon his upland. They wero Dur¬ 
ham grades, all three-yeat*olds, with the ex¬ 
ception of one four-year-old, brought over in 
the spring from Canada, fed hay from one to 
two months, and since grazed without any 
grain. They were decidedly fat and looked 
more as if they had been stall-fed to lit them 
for some exhibition as fat cattle at an agri¬ 
cultural (air than simply grazed. The four- 
year-old, Mr. Budlono estimated, would 
weigh 3,100 pounds. 
We then rode down upon the flats, and 
first entered a 100-acre meadow, which has 
been in meadow and pasture thirty years 
From th?9 wo entered a pasture lot of (.50 
acre?, upon which were feeding 170 tbree- 
year-old Canadian steers, and in the entire 
lot we did not see a si igle poor, thin ste^-r, 
while many of them were superior to the 
majority of Ihoso sent to the shambles every 
week in our cities. One peculiarity in this 
herd arrested our attention : — Instead of all 
feeding together In one part of the field, they 
were divided-into six or eight groups, which 
were scattered over the entire flsld. Mr. B. 
says I hat this is one advantage that Canadian 
cattle have over Western. They are bought 
in email lots, which keep together, while 
Western cattle are bought in large herds, and 
do not scatter in feeding. 
The pasture is almost exclusively the native 
•Tune, grass, or what Is known in some sec¬ 
tions as the “Kentucky Blue Grass,” and 
Mr. Budlono considers it worth more than 
all other grasses for stock feeding. Notwith¬ 
standing the number of head feeding upon 
it, the pasture is flush, and looks as if flfty 
head more might bo turned in. 
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well-defined objects. For centuries this pro- 
Cess keen going on, mostly in a bap-baz- 
T i'"i U ' V ’ * iut w ^kin. hfty years the breeding 
g k ,D fls of stock has become a recognized 
- ience, and its means arc every day becora- 
uig more and more understood. Our native 
cattle to-day are possibly little if any better 
-nan the common stock flfty years ago. The 
nerence between them and the Chilling, 
am wild cattlo is less marked than that 
ween our common stock and thorough- 
OHILLINQHAM WILD CATTLE, 
suggestive of the lazy quiet and dignity of 
the modern ox or cow, resulting from gene¬ 
rations of human care and good feeding. 
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A WE8TERN NEW YORK GRAZIER. 
The editor of the Rural Home has been 
visiting the farm of Mr. Isaac Budlono of 
Wheatland, near Rochester, and we copy 
the material portions of his description : 
Of his home farm of 650 acres, about 200 
without plowing, to Mr. BudlONG’s positive 
knowledge, and how much longer he docs 
not know. It will mow less than a ton to 
the acre of June grass this year. Mr. Bud¬ 
lono has already commenced breaking it up, 
and has a portion in corn and another por¬ 
tion, which was in potatoes last year, in 
wheat. The corn was looking remarkably 
well, but the wheat was rather thin and go 
full of timothy already headed out that Mr. 
B. thinks of curing it all for hay. 
Mr. B. is grazing 550 steers this season. 
They were purchased in Canada early in the 
spring, fed hay between one and two mont hs 
and then turned out to pasture. The entire 
lot averaged 850 pounds a head when ho 
bought them, and ho expects to add 450 
pounds a head before grazing season is over, 
and then sell them for beef. In purchasing, 
he flecks steers with large frames but thin in 
flesh, and his practiced eye and long exper - 
tnoe tell him just about what he may expect 
