Vol. XLIII. No. 1803. 
NEW YORK, AWUST 16, 1884. 
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J^orsman. 
CLYDESDALE STALLION PALLINS- 
BURN. 
HE breeding of heavy draft 
and coach hnj-sps must con¬ 
tinue to bo a lucrative busi¬ 
ness so long as most of the 
carting is done by horses, and 
so long as omnibuses and 
coaches continue to be so 
necessary and common, and 
so long as our street cars are 
drawn by horses. Wo breed 
animals for meat, and consider ourselves for- 
ing on the ordinary stock, bred and kept by 
our farmers for ordinary farm work, and the 
result of this cross has been very satisfactory, 
finding ready sale at good prices. Indeed 
there is no other class of horses on which, on 
an average, there is so much profit. 
At Fig. 264 wo show a flue specimen of the 
Clydesdale breed in Pallinsburn, 2317 Scottish 
Clydesdale Stud Book, and 1045 iu the 
American Clydesdale Stud Book. He is a 
fine iron-gray stallion, foaled in I860 iu Scot¬ 
land, and is consequently now over four years 
old, strong, muscular, and exceedingly well 
developed for a horse of Ivis age. Ills sire was 
young Haddo ISA*), by young Lord Haddo 998, 
by Lord Haddo 480, he by old Clyde 574, and 
he by Scotsman 754, Pallinsburu’s dam was 
DAIRY NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 
PROF. J. P. 8HELDON. 
rnE MILK CONFERENCE AT OLO0CKHTKR. 
So far as dairy matters are concerned, wo 
Englishmen are slow to invent innovations or 
to accept the new ideas of other people; but 
we have taken several loaves out of your book 
in years gone by, with regard to cheese and 
butter factories, to the modelling of our dairy 
vessels ou your patterns, and the like, and at 
last we have held a genuine dairy convention, 
or “Milk Conference,” as it was called. This 
old city of Gloucester, with the exception of 
the third sitting, which was takeu iu the great 
hail of Berkeley Castle,and it lasted three days. 
This, you will perhaps admit, is a fair start 
for John Bull to make in the way of dairy 
conferences; but whether you admit it or not, 
l am inclined to think it is. I have only to ex¬ 
press a hope that we may keep it up for a 
time, and rouse our dairy farmers up to a 
sense of the need there is that they should 
strive to improve their business wheroversuch 
improvement is necessary. The .Scotch dairy 
farmers, too, as I have already told you; and 
the Irish farmers as well, us I must tell you 
in my next, are making n stir in the right 
direction, the Iriih farmers being, so far, 
ahead in the race. Not a few of the best 
CLYDESDALE STALLION PALLINSBURN. Fig. 264. 
tunate to realize five or six cents per pound; 
but a first-class horse of the kind we have 
mentioned would seldom bring less than 10 
cents per pound live weight, and oftener 15 to 
20 cents at four years of age. The cost of rais¬ 
ing a horse to three years is but little more than 
that of raising a steer to the same age, and for 
the next year he will earn his living; therefore 
we must concede there is much more profit 
in raising the horse, but to insure this profit 
we must breed horses for the uses above 
mentioned. To meet this specific demand for 
large horses, many males of the Clydesdale 
breed have recently been imported for cross 
Black Metal 1011, by young Merry Tom 1001, 
be by Merry Tom 532. Pallinsburu's g'darn 
was Jean, by young Emperor 966, by Gray 
Emperor 369, leading back direct to Glau- 
cer, Thompson’s Black Hors*; 335, which was 
foaled about 1810, and was the most noted of 
all the founders of the Clydesdale family. 
Pallinsburu’s sires and the sires of his dam 
and g’dam have all been noted prize winners, 
seldom failing to secure the highest award iu 
any contest where shown. He was imported 
in 1882, and is still owned by Powell Brothers, 
of “Shadeland,” Springboro, Crawford Co., 
Pa., being one of the best animals in their stud. 
conference was a good deal after the pattern 
of your Dairymen’s Conventions, which were 
so great a help to your cheese makers in the 
early days of the factories. When the British 
Dairy Farmers’ Association was formed, nine 
years ago, it was hoped that one of its func¬ 
tions would be the holding of dairy conventions 
or conferences. The Association, however, 
has confined itself tnainlv to the holdiug of 
dairy shows, and has notattempted anything 
on a larger scale in the way of conferences, 
though several small ones have been held 
under its auspices. 
The .Milk Conference was held in the fine 
known dairy reformers of the British Islands 
took part in this conference, which may be 
regarded as an essentially representative as¬ 
sembly. The Rev. Canon Bagot was there 
from Ireland, and Mr. McCracken from Scot¬ 
land, both well known in the dairy circles of 
their respective countries. Canon Bagot, in¬ 
deed, a born agitator and reformer, and a 
man of uncommon energy, has been of great 
value to Ireland in starting the dairy reform 
movement; and Mr. McCracken is known as 
one of the leading men in the Scotish Dairy 
Farmers’ Association. 
Various useful topics were introduced and 
