Pbioe Five Cents, 
$2.00 Phb Year 
Voii. XL. No. 2 
Whole No. 1615. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1880. by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
are:—Edward A. Powell, Pres; Charles Hough¬ 
ton, Sec; W. C. Brayton, Treas; and Gerritt 
S. Miller, Vice-Pres. Any person interested 
in the breeding of Holstein cattle who is also 
an owner of animals of that breed is eligible 
for membership and on sending an applica¬ 
tion to the Secretary, together with a member¬ 
ship fee of $15, a certificate of membership 
will be sent to him, provided ho is admitted by 
a unauimous vote of the board of officers. 
Blank forms of application and all needed 
information will be promptly furnished by 
Charles Houghton, Whitestown, N. Y. 
dice in this connection, I don’t wish to say 
for a moment that Mr. Talcott is prejudiced, 
for that argues, to some extent, want of intel¬ 
ligent and reasonable thought and consider¬ 
ation of which I know Mr. Talcott posseBes an 
ample power. But against the objections 
made to this practice we have the whole his¬ 
tory of successful breeding of horses, cattle, 
sheep, pigs, dogs, fowls and even of the do¬ 
mestic canary birds, which have been brought 
to the greatest elegance of form, brilliance of 
color and sweetness of song by what the Eng¬ 
lish objectors call “ower'sib’ breeding,” 
meaning too close relationship. 
it would be no argument against the system by 
which this wonderful family was produced 
and made to serve the most valuable and 
useful purposes to produce effects that are 
unparalleled. 
SHORT-HORN BULL LORD UPTON 
Therefore a Duke or Duchess even now is 
sought for with eagerness and brings about 
its live weight in silver dollars. 
But, again, there was but one Thomas Bates! 
His system has been adopted by every suc¬ 
cessful breeder. Bakewell doubtless taught 
it to him, for Bakewell was the first breeder 
who applied in-and-in breeding as a system. 
Of him a noted breeder said in r78fi, “Mr. 
Bakewell has not had a cross for upwards of 
20 years; his best stock have been most closely 
bred; yet they have not decreased in size ; 
are not le6S hardy or healthful, but, on the 
contrary, have kept in a progressive state of 
improvement." This was said in reference to 
Mr. Bakewell’s cattle. What he did with his 
sheep under the same method is so well known 
as to need mere reference. 
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Well; “the end justifies the means” in 
breeding, however inapplicable it may be in 
morals. 
What instances I could bring home to Mr. 
Talcott, here “in our own country and among 
onr own people, ” in the stall, the dairy, the 
flock, the pen. if I had but space—and I had 
not, this moment, to milk and feed and clean 
up—which ought to have been done an hour 
ago. 
APPLES FOR STOCK 
CLINTON, 
The past season has been unusually product¬ 
ive of an abundant yield of apples in all Cen¬ 
tral New York, as well as elsewhere. The 
yield has, in fact, been so very great that the 
market for this valuable fruit has been abso¬ 
lutely glutted. Of course, leiug so plentiful, 
a larger quantity than usual finds a home 
market in the family, or among near friends 
and neighbors. But where these have 
all been supplied in profusion the question 
arises, What shall be done with the surplus ? 
Those living near a good market will, of 
course, be able to work it o4 gradually, at 
some profit, but those living at any considera¬ 
ble distance from such market have hardly 
felt compensated for the careful picking, 
packing and hauling necessary 
to avail themselves of such 
market, at the low price of 50 
to GO cents per barrel for the 
finest grafted fruit, for when 
there is an abnndanee, only the 
very finest and the moat care¬ 
fully assorted and handled will 
be accepted by the dealers. A 
l small quantity can be made 
into cider for vinegar and cu- 
[§ffi liuary purposes, but beyond 
that the temperate will not care 
. to go. And to gather the ap- 
| pies and haul them any consid- 
'^^558 erable distance to a cidermill, 
''-.tzj for sale at from only five to 
seven cents per bushel, is sure- 
H iy not a very profitable busi- 
£.*'■»!§» uess for a farmer who has his 
corn, his potatoes and other 
vegetables to attend to, besides 
^ - the thousand undone things 
**$■&%*&%!* always necessary to be looked 
: ^ after on the approach of Win- 
ter. The question then arises, 
What use shall we make of the 
surplus apple crop, that will be 
A\^vVVi ►-» most remunerative ? 
Webb with his South-Downs followed Mr. 
Bates’s system. And the Webb and Walsingham 
Bheep tell their own story. He did the very 
same with his tribe of Short-horns, and with 
the same conspicuous success. 
NOTES BY A STOCKMAN 
I said recently : “ The great bugbear of farm¬ 
ers in this business (breeding) is close breed¬ 
ing.” Thereupon Mr. Jonathan Talcott takes is¬ 
sue and propounds a question as follows: “ If 
Mr. Bates was so successful in bis breeding, 
where are the descendants of Duchess at this 
date ?” What a field of thought this question 
opens up ! It reminds me of the tradition of 
one ot the noble aborigines of this continent, 
who when questioned as to the number of his 
tribe and people, pointed to the forest spread¬ 
ing beyond the reach of the eye 
and said “ as the leaves of the 
forest, so are my people.” 
Curiously enough an open page of the Ag¬ 
ricultural Gazette has just caught my eye, and 
I find there the following reference to this 
very noted Celia tribe of Short-horns. It 
originated thusly: “Millbank had a son 
Driffield. Driffield was put to his dam and 
produced young Millbank. Patriot was got 
The Holstein Breeders’ Association of 
America.— In view of the sterling merits and 
growing popularity of the Holstein breed of 
cattle, we are glad to see that the above Asso- 
Where has not the Bates 
blood spread ? There are the 
Duchesses, the Princesses, the 
Oxfords. Red Roses, Wild 
Eyes aud other noted families, 
all bred by the same methods 
as the first, and their blood has 
flowed in every direction in 
all civilized lands until it has 
ocean. Who can 
colored an 
trace even the Duchess streams 5 
to its present limits? It flows 
over the plains of the West, of 
Australia and New Zealand. It jj, jjjljl'ii 
appears more or less diluted in j';i 
every beef market whore 8hort- ■ r \] Jjj| ■ 
horn grades supply the sham¬ 
bles. It is not. confined to the ; 
central concentrated recepta- • ‘ j 
cles, the numerous Dukes of ;•%» 
this and Duchesses of that, A.-&* 
that may he pointed out wher- , 
ever Short horn breeding is ' "V y . 
carried on; but it spreads * tV* 
everywhere. '"-“A, ... ■ 
Let Mr. Talcott consider the W 
splendid picture of Barou Hill- '• -j 
hurst which abuts close to his a 
communication on the first 
page of the Rural ; (and V* 
which by the way is one of the 
best specimens of animal por¬ 
traiture I have ever seen en¬ 
graved) and he will see an example of what 
I wanted to teach That noble animal is the 
product of the closest breeding ever prac¬ 
ticed by the founder of its ancestral families, 
who was one of the closest of breeders that 
ever existed. 
SHORT-HORN BULL, LORD UPTON.—Fig. 12. 
ciation has been incorporated under the laws 
of this State. The objects of the Association 
are to improve the breed of thoroughbred 
Holstein cattle; to ascertain, preserve aud 
disseminate all useful information as to their 
pedigrees and admirable qualities, as well as 
the distinguishing characteristics of the best 
specimens; to publish a Holstein Herd Book ; 
and generally to pomote the best interests of 
the importers, breeders and owners of such 
I think I remarked something about preju- 1 cattle. The present officers of the association 
' My answer has always been, 
in such cases, store them 
S5 carefully acd use them as 
Winter feed for your stock. 
They will be valuable for such 
use, especially with the pres¬ 
ent rather light supply of hay 
in the country. My experience 
and experiments, running through a long 
series of years, have convinced me that 
apples are valuable for such use, for either- 
cattle, horses, sheep or store pigs. I do not 
claim that the fattening properties of applee. 
are very great, but I do claim that they are- 
not destitute of nutriment, and that their use 
for animals, kept mainly on dry food during 
our long Winters, is highly beneficial in aiding 
the appetite and the digestion, and thus giving 
a healthful tone to the system. When prop- 
by Driffield out of Millbank’s grand-daughter. 
Young Millbank produced Crimson by Patriot. 
Crimson produced Charlotte by Palinflower, 
her own brother.” And so ou, a perfect con¬ 
centration of blood and breeding until Celia 
appears and fouuds her tribe. This was done 
by thatemineut breeder Mr. G. Coates, aud Mr. 
Jonas Webb went on where he left off, until 
his death. 
It is the fashion with objectors to this close 
breeding to ask precisely this question of Mr. 
Talcott. But if there was not one direct 
purely descended Duke or Duchess remaining, 
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