Show from am agriculturist feba feb 1859 STOCK improvement BREED ING IN AND AM IN lin in the ohio farmer of november 27 as last I 1 find the following from the pen of hon hen cassius cassias al clay of kentucky CB breeding reeding in and in that 13 to say breeding to dam or sire or near of kin has been too fully folly discussed by some of the most intelligent men in this country and england for further argument Is its advantages are aret it reduces the bone and ind gives to tb a it certain extent more fineness fine ness nass and symmetry 2nd and it produces produces a tendency to earlier maturity 3rd ard it t suits an indolent breeder ha he gets at home what others go far to seek he chooses 0 once nee for all while others make a yearly choice through life ath it is urged as the natural order its disadvantages are lat it produces idiocy blindness want of constitution disease and impotency 2nd and it takes away all the advantages of a wide and wise selection of superior ani animals mils 3rd ard it is practiced now and always by that large class of mankind who never have and never aill will produce anything memorable ath it falsely bases all imuro improvement upon feeding and shelter ignoring Oe lection selection of super superior lor points gih it is not the natural order as alleged lie lle g ed ina lna in a state of nature the feeble creatures of ain in and in bi breading oeding 1 I are driven off and killed by the superior superior types from all sources when a man attempts to keep up in and in breeding he violates this great law of selection and nature closes his false practice by disease and death fr from 0 in all which I 1 conclude the rule ne never ver breed breedin in and iril fill in when yonan ket get et an equal animal of the same race or breed breid family to the e above I 1 must roust dissent and if the writer will permit a humble new york farmer iii til 10 do so I 1 will take all an opp opposite gaite side mr clay is is a ge gentleman n a statesman a philanthropist a farmer four ot of the noblest qualifications which can be accorded to any man ile he is withal a C capital itai ital stock breeder tousand and d on his magn dicent fifteen hundred iiri tiri or two thousand acre bluegrass blue grass farm farr in central kentucky there is a splendid colli collection on of shorthorn short horn cattle of sheep and of pigs all of the best when he discourses upon any topic I 1 hear or read him with great respect and attention as I 1 do now but inking thinking tb him twisted on od that of in and in breeding I 1 beg the be use of your columns mr editor to ex express press priss most respectfully to him my own opinions in the matter what is trin in and ani in breeding bree dinc dine as usually understood der stood by breeders bleeders bre eders of ampro improved ved for fon I 1 take it that who only breed common things either elther know or care precious little about it so that they only obtain the procreation pro cration of their beasts in any cheap and convenient way As I 1 have been taught all the great and marl matl marked marled ed improvements which have been made during the past century by the most distinguished stock im in Eu england gland giand whether of horses cattle lh sheep 1 pigs or poultry and the perfection to which 11 they hey have brought their animals hs is been byn by hya a series of the most persistent course of coup linaire ling yire to daughter son to dam brother to sister and any and all other collateral relationships in which the particular qualities they desired to transmit tr in the offspring of their breeding animals dominated predominated pre vre take the sud book containing the thae pal grees greas of the most celebrated blood horses on record and you will find those of marked cje brity on the turf and in breeding bree dirig were frequently bred from the closest affinities in la both size and dam even down to a late day I 1 bakewell who I 1 is quoted by all as one of the he greatest stock improvers im of the last century ce in the draught horse long horned cattle and ard long bred sn n and in without sor sot scruple and to the closest connections and persists pers persisted istl i in it until in each of those varieties of stock lie he effected his purposes ile lie had a design deign of I 1 course and knowing what he was about wo ami I 1 how to use his material continued it 1 was necessary nece seary his film cattle to be sure sute from t ing of the wrong breed although perfected ii li in 11 A t breed were superseded by other breeds 1 tu iut t ut u I 1 3 horses and his sheep as lie he left them now fc it I t d as models for every good breeder in england tai I 1 have so stood since his time 1 bakewell Bal rewell cewell in the outset of his career sar sai f t a f imperfection of the breeds which be want went d to 0 o improve and in fit starting availed billish bin bif lish nish ot of t a labors of the Jm lim jim behre b beare 9 inny enni 5 lir i 13 3 they were that be he cou cod id and then upon two years ars at the bifid aock anck of england who bred bis his kinds of bf ani adi mais mals had bad either purchased of him atil figh prices or essentially followed his lead in we themay way of breeding their own his rule was breeding in and insy invy in his except exception on that of finding anything fit to areol to his hii ow 11 stock in the hands of others he bred for symmetry of form and a high quality of alesh flesh ii diere garding all else in lis his its cattle and sheep while his ponderous pori derous cart mountains of coal and butts buts of beer with elephantine carcasses a development of muscle and a beauty of form which at the present day are tile the pride and admiration mi ini ration of lad coal dealers and brewers of lon and liverpool he ilg established in public approbation the present metropolitan draught horse price also the most roost successful hereford cattle breeder oa on record until twenty years ago whose brizes prizes during his active life ranged in lly tile the first lists ests a ill all the shows where be he exhibited never went out of his own herd for a breeding bull or cow for forty years and when he retired rc ired left the best herd of its kind la ill all En england eagland land his breed was not promiscuous letting N all ail his things run together as in common herds but like bakewell wanting to perpetuate or improve certain qualities in his held he lie selected the tile materials having those qualities of excellence not defect which were wire required regardless of close relationship in blood and lie he used them with entire success he lle lost while perfecting form torm and flesh neither constitution size nor stamina but increased them all ills his cattle were neither creased els ch eased nor wera were they or imbe imbecile ciles but models for other breeders broeders bre eders who eagerly sought hh his herds and as far as their heir skill permitted followed his example but enouch enough jor lor this once and if mr air clay or some other opponent of in and in shall shail not speedily demolish me I 1 will say a little something hereafter about the coin ooin g a and n d other noted shorthorn short hort horn breeders bleeders bre eders of the tile last ani and d pr present esprit cen turie R A CATTLE BREEDER |