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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Nagore Bull. 
This belongs to the bumped or zebu division of the ox 
tribe. It is a native of the southern part of Asia. The 
Bulls are very active—are broken to harness, and are rid¬ 
den like horses. It is said they will travel sixty miles a 
day, with a man on their back. A few, as objects of 
curiosity, have been introduced into this country, and 
shown in menageries. 
ton IIP] by Cleveland Lad,(3.407)—grand dam [Lady 
Barrington II] by Belvidere, (1.706)—gr. g. d. [Lady 
Barrington] by a son of Mr. Mason’s Herdman, (304)— 
gr. gr. g. d. [Young Alicia] by Wonderful, (700)—gr. 
gr. gr. g. d. [Old Alicia] by Alfred, (23)-—gr. gr. gr. 
gr g. d. by Young Favorite, son of Favorite, (252.) 
Meteor, the sire of Halton, was by Duke of Wellington, 
55, (3.654;) dam [Duchess] by Mr. Bates’ celebrated 
prize bull, Duke of Northumberland, (1,940,) &c. he. 
Lady Barrington III, Duchess, and Duke of Welling¬ 
ton, 55, (3.654) were bred by the late Thomas Bates 
Esq., of Kirkleavington,Yorkshire, England, and import- 
ed by Mr. Vail. It will be seen, therefore, that Halton 
is descended directly from the justly celebrated Bates 
stock. 
Speaking of the Barrington family, Mr. Robert Bell, 
the ffiend and tenant of the late Thomas Bates, Esq., re¬ 
marks ,—“ I have no hesitation in saying that there is 
not a better tribe of cattle in England than the Barring¬ 
tons. I have had several applications for the old cow, 
[Lady Barrington,] lately, although she is 16 or 17 years 
old; but I would not sell her, intending to keep her as 
long as she will breed. * * I have now a heifer, from 
a daughter of your Lady Barrington III, by 4th Duke 
of York, [the sire of Mr. Tail’s imported heifer “ Yarm 
Lass,” S. P. C.,] not yet a year old, for which I would 
not take less than 100 guineas, ($500.) The reason why 
I think so much of the Barringtons is, they have 'plenty 
of hair , are good handlers, and most excellent milkers, 
qualities that many Short-horns do not possess.” Mr. Tail, 
in a letter to me of the 19th August, 1851, follows this ex¬ 
tract by saying, “1 have now four cows and heifers of 
this tribe. My three which give milk, are all good 
* Lady Barrington III, won the first prize at the show of the New- 
York State Agricultural Society, held at Auburn in 1846, and the 
first prize at the Rensselaer county fair same year. 
milkers, which corresponds with what Mr. Bell says about 
this family of Short-horns.” Yery respectfully yours, 
S. P. Chapman. Mt. Pleasant Farm, Clockville, Ma¬ 
dison co., N. ¥., May, 1852. 
Reviewer Reviewed. 
A review, by “ Platanus,” of Mr. Evan’s Dairy Man¬ 
ual, appeared in The Cultivator for April. It is not 
my intention to defend Mr. Evans’ book, but whatever 
are its errors, they cannot be corrected by opposing them 
with others. Neither have I any disposition to revive a 
controversy in regard to the origin of certain stocks of 
cattle, but lest some of the statements in the review al¬ 
luded to, should be deemed unanswerable, I offer a few 
remarks. 
1. It is said in there view, that the bull Hubback was, 
“according to the best investigation, a thorough-bred 
Short-horn.” 
It is well known that there was formerly much discus¬ 
sion in regard to the blood of this animal, and that it has 
been left in doubt by persons who have had the best op¬ 
portunities to obtain information on the subject. It is 
true that forty-five years after Hubback was produced, 
a pedigree was obtained for him, which was placed in the 
Herd-Book. Admitting, for the present, that the pedi¬ 
gree is correct, it does not prove that Hubback was a 
“thorough-bred Short-horn.” It shows that he was 
derived in part from the stocks of Sir James Penniman 
and Sir Wm. St. Quintin, and there is plenty of evidence 
that these were not deemed pure Short-horns,—they 
having been mixed, more or less, with Norman blood. 
Even Ambrose Stevens,—to whom the writer of the re¬ 
view will not, probably, object as authority,—has said 
(at least by implication) that those stocks came from 
Normandy! (See his article on the “ history” of Short¬ 
horns, in the Trans, of the N. F. State Ag. Soc., 1849.) 
