The educated horse teaching The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals educatedhorsetea00offu Year: 1854 252 ESSAY ON CATTLE. breed in the United States. The picture given above, (fig. 4.) is that of a Holderness or Teeswater cow, crossed 'with the Improved Short Horn. The TeeswaUr. In more judicious hands the Short Horn rapidly improved. Among the spirited breeders,on the banks of the Tees, (which divides York and Durham,
The educated horse teaching The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals educatedhorsetea00offu Year: 1854 252 ESSAY ON CATTLE. breed in the United States. The picture given above, (fig. 4.) is that of a Holderness or Teeswater cow, crossed 'with the Improved Short Horn. The TeeswaUr. In more judicious hands the Short Horn rapidly improved. Among the spirited breeders,on the banks of the Tees, (which divides York and Durham,) they rapidly assumed a distinctive character; shorter legged, more compact, the milk but sightly diminished, and this more than counterbalanced by its in- creased good quality,—-better feeders, hardier, carrying more fat, and their flesh more marbled and finer in grain. This signal improvement was effected, it is generally supposed, by a system of judicious crosses. An importation of cows from Holland, is usually referred to as one of these, and Mr. Ber- ry conjectures the wild white breed of England to have fur- nished another^ Hence the strong admixture of white in the Teeswater and the Durham. The improved variety, denomi- nated indiscriminately, Teeswater or Holderness, immediately became the general favorite in the large metropolitan dairies and milk establishments. For milking properties, and when no longer used for that purpose, aptitude to take on flesh, England had never possessed so valuable a breed, The Durham, or Improved Short Horn.—(fi(J>d6-) At this epoch, and with such materials, Mr. Charles Col- ling commenced his carreer as a breeder. His wonderful success has been ascribed by some, to chance j but the Rev.
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