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Title: The Farmer's magazine
Year: 1834 (1830s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (London : Rogerson and Tuxford
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ch electricity is believed to exercise aconsiderable influence. The mutual relations, andthe peculiar definite power of the individual agen-cies, are, however, almost wholly unknown. Ob-servation and experience have, indeed, given somedefinite information, which science has iu somepoints confirmed. By them, the practical manhas been taught that certain peculiarities of struc-ture are connected with certain results, and hisknowledge of these regulates his method of breed-ing, rearing, and feeding animals. The somewhatwedged-shape cow indicates a high power of secret-ing the lactic fluid, while the parellelogram-shapedanimal, that of secreting fat and flesh. Indicationssuch as these, even apart from any scientific expla-nation, are now every day made practically useful,and in the following article we will point out asmany of these indications as popular opinion, orthe judgment of the best breeders confirms, occa-sionally introducing explanations which go to es-tabUsh the popular belief.
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SHORT-HORNED BULL. The first breed we will consider is the Short-horn, which stands confessedly first, as an early ma.uring and flesh-producing animal. As mostof our readers are aware, the Short-horn is a cross,and not a pure bred animal, as the West Kigh- Y 318 THE FARMER»S MAGAZINE. lander. It is principally to Charles Collins thatthe Short-iorns owe their fame; he having intro-duced the Galloway blood with a red heifer, whichwas employed to give greater compactness of formto the then known Teeswater or Short-horn, andthe descendants of this galloway heifer were in ashort time duly appreciated, and became the im-provers of Coilings most celebrated stock. Onecow. Lady, at fourteen years old, sold for 206 gui-neas, and her daughter Countess, nine years old,for 400 guineas. Comet, a bull, sold for looOguineas. Mr. CoUings stock of forty-seven innumber, realized £7115. Vie will first consider the distinguishing qualitiesof the male; and we again wish strongly to impressupon our reader

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