Author: Charles S. Plumb

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781333354664

Excerpt from Little Sketches of Famous Beef Cattle In some respects this is perhaps the most famous animal in cattle history. This is due to the fact that many have regarded him as the first great breeding bull of the Shorthorn class of cattle. His career was unique and almost without a parallel, which rather adds to his his toric interest. The Shorthorn breed came to its own up in northeastern England, in a beau tiful grazing region, particularly in the counties of Yorkshire and Durham. For many years along in the eighteenth cen tury cattle of the Shorthorn type, of much excellence, were bred in this part of England, along the valley of the Tees. From which they at first derived the name Teeswater cattle. Dutch and Galloway blood were used somewhat in early times on these Teeswater cattle. But it is also probably true that there were herds bred with fair purity for many years, from which the genuine Shorthorns of to-day are descended. The early type of Shorthorn, we are told, was rather large and rangy and lacked quality, and did not represent the best stamp of the feeder. About the middle of the eighteenth cen tury a bricklayer named John Hunter was a tenant farmer in the County Dur ham. About 1771 he left the farm and moved to a little village near the city of Darlington, named Hurworth. He had sold all his cattle excepting one beauti ful Shorthorn cow, which he brought with him to his new home. Owning no land, he was obliged to graze her along the roadsides. In 1777 she dropped a bull calf, to a pure Shorthorn bull, owned by George Snowdon of Hurworth. It is this bull calf which afterward attained so much fame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.