TIIE CULTIVATOR 
Derby Bull. 
This cut gives a faithful representation of the old Derby bull. This breed, however, has gradually died 
away, and it is comparatively seldom that a pure Derby can now be met with. The short-horns have taken 
possession of this portion of the territory of the long-horns also, and there are few dairy farmers now, and espe¬ 
cially in the neighborhood of Derby, that have any long-horns in their dairies; and yet it is confidently'asserted 
that some cows of the ancient stock'have yielded as much as seventeen pounds of butter in a week.— Yoiiatt. 
young ones by a rope or Napoleon halter and guiding 
the leaders by the whip. They follow their kind bet¬ 
ter than horses, and on plowed ground they soon tire 
and get gentle; and further, there is no necessity of 
being as particular where the harrow goes, as if it was 
a plow, and a wheel vehicle might sometimes move too 
fast. In the fore part I allude to a planked house, be¬ 
cause there would be no place for a fractious steer to 
get his horns fast. I have been in the habit of tying 
them by ropes, to j r oke, until they became sufficiently 
gentle to dispense with it. A Marylander. 
High vs. Bow Horses. 
I have been struck by some of .the positions in the 
Country Gentleman’s account of the late Horso Show 
at Springfield. In giving a history of the origin of the 
affair, you state— 
It was seen, by the originator of the movement, and 
by those who sympathized with him, that New-Eng- 
land and the country generally were indebted to- a 
single State for the mo3t of their desirable and valua¬ 
ble horses. It was seen that single breeding animals 
had been the source of almost millions of revenue to 
the breeders of their respective localities, and that in 
the majority of the States of the Union it was almost 
impossible to find a horse, bred at home, that was of 
high value. 
The sentiments of this paragraph are undeniably 
correct, and are worthy of being kept constantly in 
view. Turn now to the sketch of the speech of Mr. 
Holcomb. He said, “the stock of thorough-breds was 
depreciating in England. * * * He thought the size, 
and more particularly the height of the Morgana and 
Black Hawks might he increased (which he advised) 
by feeding the colts more highly for the first year. He 
also advised crossing the stock with larger horses.” 
That gentleman, in the course of his remarks, spoke 
of the Arabian horse. Now it is well known that it 
was while the English adhered to the general charac¬ 
ter of this breed, that their horses were so famous for 
long races and power of endurance. But the Arab, in 
his highest purity, is not the tall animal which some 
amateurs advocate. The latest, and perhaps the most 
reliable, of all authors, Mr. Layard, informs us that the 
average height of these celebrated animakus from 14 
hands to 14f, rarely reaching 15. An Arabian horse 
only 14 hands high, lately beat a noted English mare, 
15A hands high, in a race near Alexandria. He be¬ 
longs to IJallem Pasha, a son of the Viceroy of Egypt. 
We are informed that a challenge has now been given 
to run the same horse a distance of fourteen miles, 
against any competitor, and that the English are de¬ 
liberating whether it is safe to accept it. 
Such is the stature of the most famous breed of 
horses in the world. And yet we have seen a late at¬ 
tempt in this country to put such noble animals entire¬ 
ly out of the category of horses , allowing them only the 
name of ponies! 
A pamphlet, written by a distinghished cavalry offi¬ 
cer, has lately been published in England, in which it 
is shown that two of the principal causes of the degen¬ 
eracy of English horses, are breeding from those of too 
great height, which has been done both to adapt the 
stock to the London taste for carriage horses, and to 
produce those which can rup rapidly at short distances, 
and forcing the growth of the young animals by high 
feeding. 
If these practices produce such results abroad, why 
should we be encouraged to adopt them 1 In conclu¬ 
sion, I can only say, that whatever experiments may 
be made in reference to suiting an absurd fashion of a 
day, I hope our breeders will adhere to the standard, 
as to size, height, and shape, which experience has 
proved constitutes the most serviceable, useful, and 
really valuable horse. Multum in Parvo. 
