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CHERAW GAZETTE AND PEE DEE FARMER. VO LUAlETv"MM"""MMM""""" "^i^ggCHE^AWrSOUTirGA^OLINA^FRID^Y!^^NING]^AY"3l"T83aigii!gggggggiiggNUMRE^^g7?^ $?&&&&&&$ < EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ( i TER M S: ] i If paid within three mouths, . . 3 00 ( II pai J within three months after thocloso of tho year, :*. . 350 If paid within twelve months after tho I olose of the year, 4 00 < If not pai J within that time, . 5 00 , A company often persons taking tho paper at tho same Post Office, shall be entitled to it at $25 provided the names bo forwarded together, and accompanied by the money. ; No paper to bo discontinued but at the option ; of tho editor till arrearages are paid. 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I All marble shipped will be neatly boxed and!] delivered in New York at the prices; a list of! < which wo havo to exhibit. BROWN BRYAN & BROTHER. I Cheraw, May 3, 1839. 25?2m BOOK BINDING. THE subscribers have established themselves ! in the above line of business in Cheraw 1 and offer theirscrvices to its citizens. ; u. BAZENCOURT, & CO. , o r* l on I t neraw, juu. ?u. , ~ SILK CULTURE. 1 I CAY S MACHINES. j Silk is going ahead. The signs are more ! | favorable for the cultivation of this new j < staple, than they were when the South be. !< gan to turn her attention towards the growth ? of cotton. The Moras Mullicau7s which * grows with such rapidity that it furnishes t food for the worm, in the very Spring when i it is planted, famishes one essential link to- i wards its production. The invention of new t Machines, for reeling and manufacturing < the silk into various forms, enables the plan- 1 ter to turn his cocoons at once to account. | J The weakest part of our slave population, > i "the young and the old, may bo profitably j < employed ; and as we heard a V irginia To- ( J bacco Planter declare the other evening it i I would uot be astonishing, il Gay's Machine i were to efFrct a singular revolution in Vir- e * * * 1 # 1 - .4 ginia, by keeping many o? our peopiu ui i home, vvho would otherwise have gone to < lie co::ori regions of the Sou h and South j west?and by bringing more population s and capital to our State and thus creating a ? new and important element of her prospcri- t ?y- , J The pubisc co.-ift lencc seems indeed to < increase in this new branch of business. If r 4.s very evident, ?hat the rage for the Mo us I Aldlticau is woui J have soon expended itself unless us cultivation had been connected with the raising of silk. The multiplication of the tree daring the present season, wdl A bo very considerable. Many of our farmers are devoting small portions oft heir land ; from 2 or 3 up :o 17 or 20 acres. A silk company near Washington has 400 acres in cultivation ; But, the mechanical ingenui. * ty of our countrymen, which exceeds that 1 of any country in the world, is already urL sing to the level of the occasion,''and strik- ^ ing out new m ichines for tlie mancfacture 1 of trie cocoons into silk. Tne best reel in j Vrunm nr Fed v. is the P/edmontese reed ; bu already the Genius of Mr Gay of Con* ? nccticut has outstript this boasted machine. This single improvement a'one will give a jj new and wonderful impulse to the growth of the Mulberry, and the raising of the worm. Our attention has been drawn to the interest, ing subject by the visit of Mr. G ty to our j city - fits reel has been exhibited at the , read ng rooms in the Museum' Building, and no one can see it without admiration 1 and delight. It has suggested the following 1 reflections : Raising the Mulberry and feeding the * site worm, are already familiar to many, and of easy accomplishment by all. The production of cocoons has in fact ben a , matter of amusement, if not of profit occasionaily, and on a small scale, since before the Revolution; but hitherto, insuperable ' difficulties huv<> appeared to stand in the way of pushing it to the extent of making it a natio.ml staple. The chief impediments C have consisted in the time and labor requir.. ed to grow and gather food for the worm, and in the ausence of suitable labor saving machinery for working up the beautiful pro duct of its brief labors, i true it is, that 1 roost excellent silk has been made from r worms fed on the white, and on our in Jige- c nous Mulberry trees ; but these were of such slow growth, as to discourage the steamboat c locomotive go uheadgenious of our people? I especially in the South. The first impedi- I, ment has been completely removed by the t introduct on and rapid growth of the Morus f Mul icaulis ; which springs with wonderful s quickness from birth to maturity, like the in- \ sect for which Providence obviously design- \ ed it?and the remaining difficulty,?iwant \ of machinery to make the cocoons available ; seems now to have been most opportunely t surmounted by another invention of Aineri. < can ingenuity: We allude to Gay's < Machinery which has been exhibited for i some days past in this city. By the turn- \ ing of a wheel,} which any child can do, ! Ill ! H HBMMB8W?Q??? ;ocoon3 are wound off, and converted a mce into tho most beautiful silk for th< aeedle or loom. All who have seen it r.ave been struck wi h the ease, regularib and result ol ib operation, and themechani sal genius of its inventor. A view of th process appears to have inspired all witl the same impression, that now we can mak Dur own silk, and that we must no longe pay a tax of twenty millions for a commodity which every circumstance and facility in cites us to make for ourselves. The object of ihe inventor, a most respect able <St ingenious machinist, is to sell hi patent rights to companies, for particula States. YVhilfi nnnn in iho Union nnsses S"S more advantages than ours for establish :ng this new branch of industry, thero woul seem To be no doubt but large profits mus be realized by the company which secure* for the State of Virginia, the exclusive righ o manufacture and vend this machinery ti companies, which may then be formed ii ?ach county, or individuals. Under all th circumstances, may we not look upon thi silk cause as an esabhshed interest in ou land ? We understand, that Mr. Gay ha9 dis x>sed of the Patent right in several States New Jersey, for example, at 815,000? ind the company wh'ch purchased tne right cleared at once 815,000 by the speculation hie nsks 830,000 for Virginia?and a Norfolk alone, about $10,000 were taken Several shares have already been taken it his city.?Rich. Enquirer. Extraordinary Cows.?Great efforts ar made in some sections of the country t< mprovc the breed of horned cattl ind horses, but too littlo attention i >aid to prime milch cows. Why a fai mer or any other parson should be willinj :o keep an unproductive animal, when a fa nore productive one would cost no mor 'np itc Clinnnrf 11 i 3 IVPnlnknrl pnnniun ^ VI J/Vl if ?i to "i VIV.IIVU t political economy. The value of a piec >f ground is in proportion to its products inJ the actual worth of a cow is predicate! jpon the quantity und goodness of the mill >he yields. Therefore it is the worst foil] o feed a poor animal at the same expensi equirtd to support a good cow. Tho or ginal outlay may be more, but in the en< he increased yield will greatly augment th< jwner's profits.?Mr. Coleman's Secorn Report mentions some superior cows ii Berkshire, some of which probably can bi .'quailed in Hampshire. Mr. S. D. Hol< )f Pitsfield has a cow whose milk yieldei L93 pounds of Butter hi 148 days. Mr Merrill has one which gives 30 beer quart laily. Mr. Fenn of Stockbridge has a cow 'ight years old, which has produced in on< veek 12 lbs. 6 oz. butter, besides milk am :rcum used in tho family. VVm. Dewey o Mford has a cow which has produced fi jome lime 14 lbs. of butter & week. Mr 3u?phen YVillard of Stockbridge has a cov vhich produced, in 321 successive days 531 lbs. of butter. M}\ Ashton of \shfie!< jvns a cow whose product for less than I nonths last year was 303 pounds of butter S'one of these animals had extra feeding. Norlhamton Mass Courier. From the Farmers Register. L SUCCESSFUL MODE OF KEEPING SWEET PO. TATOES. To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. I see in the last number of the Register - - - " - - - ^ -- o in ariicle from a correspondent, in which hi ipeuks of the dt'Ticulty of keeping sweet po aloes. 1 can givo him the plan of a house vhich has Kept potatoes for the last fiv< rears. At the usual time for digging po atoes, the old ones were to be removed t< jive place to the new. This is a plan of th< iousc : for dig a square pit <n the grouix ibout four feet deep, about the size yoi vish your house to be ; log it upon the m lide until the logs are about four or five fee ibove the surface of the earth ram the dir veil around the log frame in the earth. Oi he outside of the first frame, build anoth ;r frame of logs, leaving a space of one foo jetween the two : fill the space between th rumes with sand or dry earth ; upon thi op cf tho frames lay a plank floor, and th< lpper part of the floor to be covered witl !nrih ahnnt A inches deen. then a roof witl he gublc end open to the south, and close) it the north. Have a door in the log fram< ibout two feet square, to the south. Afte he potatoes are dug they must be protertei rom the sides and bottom by dry pin eaves. The door must be kept open n vurm dry days, and closed in cold damj veahter, and always at night. P. S. Also a floor to the pntatoe.hous< >f poles. A Subscriber. the tomato. Few vegetables of equal value are so litth tnown through this countf). None an nore readily raised?nono better repay the :ultivator. The tomato, or love apple, is a luxury it lommon use tnrough the south of Europe n France ana Italy, particularly, it is large y employed in culinary preparations. Ei her raw or stewed?in soups or fricases-' or gravy or catsup?.as well as for pickle ind sweetmeats-?its utility is such, that i vould not readily be dispensed with by tho* vho have give it a fair trial in these variou ivays. The experience of several years enable is to recommend the Tomato to all wh< lesire the acquisition in their gardens of i :heap |luxury. For salubrity, none cai surpass it. It has been constantly used ii various forms, at almost every meal during ;he last th^ee or f'^ur seasons, by mvse! tt and several acquaintances, whose heal B coniinae 1 excellent, even when the previ ence of the cholera banished fruits ai y vegetables generally from most tables, i. Should any who are now unacquainti e with the Tomato, make the experiment h raising a supply, they may add to the sir e pie luxuries of the table by adopting the r directions for making : y Tomato Catsup.?The Tomatoes, wh< ' c..n_. _i i i L. i * i i i? ?i. . luuy ripe, suouiu ue oruiseu ana uoin slowly for half an hour?then strain* throu jh a cloth, and the liquid boiled anoth s half hour, after adding salt and spices, b r without any admixture of water?-?'Tl scum should be carefully removed, so as render the liquor as pure as possible, d should be bottled and kept in u cool plac ,t After it stood a short time, should any so 5 iment be discovered in the bottles, (and j order to know with certainty, clear gla 3 bottles would be best for this use,) the liqu n should be poured off into other bottes. 0 this way, catsup of excellent quality?-pr q ft rable in my judgment, to that from Mus r rooms, and clear as choice Madeira?rea ily made in greater quantity and with le trouble than in the common way. ^ " In our last number," says the Soutl _ em Agriculturist, " we inserted Dr. Be t nett's statement of the medicinal and oth qualities of the So/anum Lycoperscium, c t as it is usually called Tomato, Love Anp u dec. In that article he recommends a ge eral use of it, raw, or cooked; in order th our readers may have an opportunity using this invaluable vegetable in a varie e of forms, we present them the Doctors va > ious recipes for its pr-'purntion. e The Raw Tomato.?In this state the rij s fruit should be plucked from the vine ai . sliced up in vinegar, like cucumbers, with nr little oil, pepper, and salt; or it may be ec r en like other ripe, fruit, without seasoning rn j. c n_.i. ! ?i T B j omuio aouce.?raruon me ripe 10m ,f toes until the skin will slip ; peel and ma: c them ; and add to every pound of the T i, matoes one ounce of butter, season wi j pepper and salt, and simmer over a sic < fire until perfectly cooked. If, howevc y toast should bo added to the sauce, the pr b portion of butter should be increased. Fried Tomatoes.?Ripe Tomatoes, s j ced up and fried in butter, are, to man 5 quite delicioug. j Tomato Pickles.?Pickles are mado 1 1 the green fruit, by the same process tKaf y< e would observe in the pickling ofcucnm ?ei j or any other article. The ripe fruit mi j likewise be pickled, and in fact is a prefe . able article ; as it is in that case highly me 3 icinal, and has a much better flavor. Tomato Catsup.?? Take a pock, of ri] ? Tomatoes, (or any other quantity, only o J serve proportions,) mash them well togcthi f und simmer over a slow fire until they a r dissolved, strain through a fine sieve ; aft . straining, (which requires some pains 1 v mashing and forcing the pulp through tl [, sieve with the hand,) add to this liquor, < j pulpy mass, half an ounce of cloves, ai 3 the same quantity of black pepper gruir . one root of garlic, three ounces of hor radish, and a sufficient quantity of salt make it palatable ; bod all these mgredier together over a gradual fire until you redu' the bulk to one half: then to each qu i - add two table spoonsful of vinegar. VV fx it is cool, cork it up <n bottles, and in a litt - ??II I-_c. I-.-- Ti.u iirne ii win uc in iur u"n-? x in- auuHiuu ? some English walnut liquor or catsup, w B greatly improve its flavor.'* '? AN ESSAY ON THE QUESTION ? " Whether the breed of live stock, connei " ed with Agriculture J>e susceptible of t greatest improvement from the qualiti j conspicuous in the male, or from tho conspicuous in the female parents. . BY THE REV. HENRY BERRY. ACTON BEA t CHAMP, WORCESTERSHIRE. This Essay is copied from "The Britit 1 Farmer's Mugiz ne," of ttie 13th Nov., " which there is the following note ! .. ? H The Highland Society of Scotlai H awarded Mr. Berry their Honorarry Med 5 for his Essay on this suhiect; but us by ti R rules of the Society we could not availou selves of the Paper for our first Numbe I the Essay has been kindly rewritten for u which circumstance will account for any li e eral variation, though the matter will 1 ' found the same." It will be acknowled by every compete e judge, t at the question proposed bv tl II Higlund Society is one abounding in difl ? cullies, but it is hoped that the facts and a euments which shall be hereafter used, w f prove that the writer has bes owed upc the subject a considerable degree of a tei tion, and that he has not presumed to i trude visionary opinions, unconfirmed bytl test of experience, Or adopted without tl 3 previous labor of inves igation and reflei a tion. 3 That the discovery of an independe: faculty (if such exist) in the male or fema i parent, to con er peculiar properties on tl . offspring, would be attended to with bene! . cial results to the breeders of animals coi . nected with agriculture, must at once I - admitted; and this impression, general b nntOftrnnnrl IC nrnKi Kl tr Ann r\f tkn S*ntlCi 3 ^lUUUUIJf UUC Ul IIIV wwu-' t which lime led to the assignment of sue ? peculiar faculty to the sexes alterna ely, i 9 circumstances have Occurred which a{ peared to justify such opinion. No fact s more notorious than this, that many breee 3 ers consider certain horses or mares to coi a fer striking characteristic traits on their o! i spring. The same also is asserted respe i j ting neat cattle, and it may be added, th ; | such peculiarity is principally assigned f; the male, In order that the writer m? i th render more effective his arguments agains* i|. thq correctness of such opinions, it is purid posed briefly to state what are conceived to be the circumstances which have led to >d its adoption, and to exhibit them in their true of light, as not justifying tho conclusions to n- which they have led. se During all periods since agriculture has obtained any considerable degree of atten. jn tion, greater or less care, according to cirid cumstances; has been paid to the different =d breeds of an.mals, whose improvement er formed an important branch of rural econut omy. An obvious consequence of this care, at) resuliing scarcely less from a laudable deto gree of emulation, than from a desire of lu It crative improvement, would be the produce. tionofan improved race of males; 1 he male d. animal affording advantages superior to the in female for the improvement of the species, ss inasmuch as he is uvailable to a number of or the latter, while the services of the female In must be restricted to her single, or little e~ numerous produce of the year, as the case h- might be. Furiher, it may be observed d. that in earlier times, as in the present, the ss majority of breeders would pursue their object of improvement with the les3 expenb? sivo and easily acquired herd of ordinary u- females, looking to the selected males for er the accomplishment of their wishes. Few >r, would possess means calculated to breed a e, stallion, as few also would have a cowsufn ficiently good in quality to produce a bull at forthi improvement of stock. The ideas of entertained respecting the requisites of a sire ty would probably be similar, and lead to the r- adoption of a general standard of excellence, towards which it would be required that po each male should approximate, and thus id there would exist, among what may be a termed fashionable sires, a corresponding it- form and character, different and superior j. to those of tho general stock of the country a- This form and character, it may be observill ed, would in most instances have been ac? i u.. ? !- I J-? r I u- (juucu uy pciocvciatiuc 111 ureeumg iroiii th animals which possessed the important or iw fancied requisites, and might therefore be x, said to be almost confirmed in such indivio duals. Under these circunstances, striking results would, doubtless, follow the introli. duction of such sires in a common stock; y. results which would induce superficial observers to remark, that indidual sires posof sessed properties as males, which in fact )u were only assignable to them as improved rS, animals. A horse of the foregoing dexy scription, bred from ancestors of qualities x. similar to his own, would impress his off d- spring strongly, the mares with which he bred possessing no determinate character or pe form, as regarded their descent, being the b- produce of heterogenous connection, of the ;r, co-mingling of perhaps a hundred different re shapes, and consequently possessing no tener dency to any one particuiai. Further, the jy female produce, one annually, would be he presented too rarely to afford a con or viction similar to that entertained in favor of id the male, among whose numerous colts of is, the year, there must be. even by chance, a se consi erable number bearing his features, to In tfcenc, and in similar circumstances, it its seems not unreasonable to suppose that the ce opinion originated of our breeds of cattle ir: b?*ing more susceptible of improvement ?n the male, than from the fem ile parent, le In the present day, effects of the same of nature have produced the same opinions, til and th ? highly improved state of some of our agricultural stock has contributed greatly to strengthen and conform them. It is . observable, hewever,thnt the assignment of this intrinsic property is not made now, so fo eiclusively as formerly, 10 the male. The eg female has also obtained her advocates, se who, without advancing any argument in support of tlieir doctrine, maintain it never, thelsss wvh considerable pertinacity. It is presumed that the cause of this partial change in public opinion, may be easily as. sh signed. To persons conversant with imin proved breeding, it is well known that of late years numerous sales have taken place id of the entire stock of celebrated breeders of !i?l suvs, and consequently tfiat the females, he valuable for such purpose, have passed into it a number of hands. Unfor unaie'y, persons r, who have on these occasions become posts, sessed of a fine female, have not always it- been equnlly successful with regard to a 3e male; the high prices at v* hich such animals have sold, having placed an impediment In nt their way, or a disposition to deem one step iowards improvement adequate to the pro. fi. motion of their views, having led them to r. remain contented with a measure, which to ill a certain extent, would benefit their stock ; in but which must also as certainly be consid? n., ered a sacrifice of the high ored females in n. question. Such persons have introduced a _ ?~ ?:?a .? u..ii ie ww so at^uinru, iu a uuii, luicnur in puuit ie of descent, and general good qualities; and o the offspring has pioved superior to the sire, by virtue of the dam's excellence, to which nt by certain degrees it would approximate; Ie and thus has arisen an opinion, that parttcie ular females, also, possessed the property of 5. impressing theircitaracleristies upon the offn. spring. >e * reference to the stock of any profession. |y al bull breeder would serve to show how 3s erroneous is the opinion founded on such ;h grounds. It would then be seen that, upon is the whole, the produce of different years ). are Subject but to liitlu fluctuation in point is of excellence, supposing the requisite skill ]- to be practised by the breeder. The sys i? tem of crossing the different males and ie_ ff. males being correctly understood, and c. above ail, the femabs also being well bred, at the standard of excellence is supported with to tolerable uniformity ; and though occasion. iy allv an extraordinary animal makes its ap^ ? pearance, none of the effects are apparent! t which excitt s surprise wh<u the male only, g r the female, happpens to be well-bred4 Contrast this state of things with that which a will be apparent in the inferior stock, to b improve which, the well-bred bull is put in ti requisition. There it is that the produce n astonishes, for there sire the impresses tJ characteristics peculiarly his own. If it be b argued, why it does so, the answer is pasy, n for the reason is obvious. His excellences a are the accumulated acquisitions of many b ancestors; they are positive, and in com. ti panson, fixed ; while the cows, with which ? he has been used, possess little or no char- si acter, and have been bred without regard to ? any point but the production of animals to h increase the stock upon the farm. c It is conceived that a few facts in cor- *' boration of this reasoning, may be here appropriately inlr< duccd. They will be de- e rived from the history of the improved Short-Horns, a breed of cattle with which 0 the writer appears to be I es: acquainted. P Mr. Colhng's bull Comet impressed the " generality of his stock with his own peculiar traits in so remarkable a degree, that it m was easay for a stranger to select them from a great number of animals. But in n Comet, it should be remembered, centred what was called the best bloo i, and it ought 10 be remarked, that, at that period, good 81 Short-Horns were not very aunqerous ; and Comet, except in his owner's and Mr. P Charge's stock, was introduced to cows n comparatively inferior. It is not, there- u fore, singular, thai from such a bull a stock Jj very supei ior to the darn's should spring; J but in Mr. Colling's own stock, where the ? cows were also superior, and in Mr. 1 Charge's, to which the same remark ap- 11 plies, no such striking effects followed the 3 use of this bull; the cows possess positive n characters ics, the effi?ct of improved breed- u ing, as well as Comet; and if his traits P did predominate in a more than usual de- 0 gree in the offspring, it was principally, P only, where cows bore a near affinity to 4 him. The samo remarks aro applicable to r Major, a son of Comet. With well-bred t cows he proved himself a good bull, but it was when he came to be used with inferior 0 cows that his excellence os a stock-getter w was fully revealed ; but his merit in this * respect is well known. High breed here ' 'igain predominated in the usually extraordinary manner, for Major was by Comet. * out of the celebrated cow Lady, all whose produce sold at prices so high, as strongly 8 to evince how they were regarded ia public J estimation. Here, then, existed positive J qualities transmitted by descent, on the * buIPs side, before which the indeterminate ? character of ill bred cows gave way, it led [ to the produ tion of a race better than the females, an improvement to be ascribed to r Major's blood, and not to any sexual super- v lority. The same remarks may be made as to Western Comet, a son of Major, out of a capital cow of Mr. Charge's. All his J stock were most excellent, but the bulls' . breeding was most pre-eminently evinced c in his descendants from ordinary cows. 8 Thus it appears, that when a male and fe. c male are especially welhbred, and of nearly a ' qua! individual excellence, it is not proba- a ble that their produce will exhibit any gen eral proof of a preponderating power in ei- ' ther parent, to impress peculiar characteris- 8 tics. But should the contrary appear to be the case, upon diligent enquiry it will sel- s dom fail to be ascertained, that peculiar 8 characteristics have been derived from an- s' ces^rs, which, under certa:n circumstances j: of cuntact, or crossing, have become prom- [J inent features in the offspring. A simple case will illustrate this remark. Suppose ? the ancestors of a bull, in the third or fourth * generation, to have possessed defective 8: shoulders, but that defect not to exist in * himself, in consequence of close attention on the part of his breeder, Cross sucli a bull u with a cow defective in her shoulders, and !. orobablv the defect will exist in the offsDrine J v o in an increased degree, and will obia n for the dam the characier of breeding a produce P similar to herself Whereas, in fact, this a is an injudicious cross, made in ighdrance, P or disregard of the fact, that animals breed , back ; that they possess a greater tendency ! to defect than to perfection ; and that the 1 only safe of breeding is, that of strictly scru- n tinizing the pretensions of ancestors. ^ With regard to the bulls which have been 0 instanced, Comet, Major, and Western g Comet, hud they been bred from cows of jt very inferior blood, although they might |8 have possessed excellent form, with other good quahities, experience assures us that fc they could not have deserved as sires. s| Comet's sons, from well-bred cows, begot tc good animals ; but such as were descended y from inferior females, left no reputation be* hind them, but as sons of Comet. In order that the foregoing reasoning n mav be understood, and a very common e, and fatal error guarded against, it is thought 8j necessary to explain as to the terms High- tl blood and Highly-bi ed, that the writer does u not mean to attnch unmerited value to mere ti pedgree, unsupported by soid pretensions to excellence; he would only to recommend fj to public estimation that loug descent trom a animals all individually possessed ofvolua. c ble qualities, which qualities are prominent in their descendants. a If what has been advanced shall appear e to be founded in reason, then it is submitted, t< that with our present stock of information ti on this subject, our only rational couiseof tl proceeding can be adopted by breeders, viz., t< hat of resorting to the best males ; at once r a simple and efficacious mode of itnprov. 1 ing such stocks as require improvement, aod t he sole mode by which stocks, already ;ood, can be preserved in their excellence. That high blood or in other words, that nimals long and successfully selected, and red with a view to particular qualifiesons, impress th^ir descendants in the nanner here intimated, is a fact too well etiblished in experience to be overthrown y any of the chance exceptions which jay, no doubt, be taken against this* -. s well as against other rules; and to high lood it is, that the writer ascribes thequali* /, whether in the male Or female parent, rhich the Highland Society has been de irous 10 assign correctly; and he is not without a hope that t( will be thought ho as shown in as satisfactory a manner as a ase, where much must depend on conjee* ure, will admit of, how it has happened hat the opinions prevalent on this subject ver came to be entertained. The flcxt object will be to support his pinion by the evidence which certain facts resent, is he thinks, conclusively in its ivor. The bl od stallion Militiaman, covered sveral seasons at Bromyard, in Hereford* hire. His colts were generally of a ches. at color, and partook ip a striking degree f his peculiar form. He was cunsequenfr pointed out as a horse impressing his lock with his own characteristic : and in*. :anc?*d as a proof of the existence of thik eculiarity in the Wiale. But it should bo 3marked that in ho district", where a lolerble number of colts are bred, are Worke vires to be found, than around Bromyard*. iNiey are promiscuously and ill-bred, and eficient in good form and character.? Mitiaman is a chesnut horse, bred from a ribe also principally chesnut. Is it then urprising that this hor*e, crossed with nare9 destitute of characteristic features, nd bred in such a manner as to possiss no redispo*ition to any particular form or colr, should impress his colts With his own eculiarities, derived from breed, or pairticu. ir descent ? It is presumed that nO other esult could reasonably be anucipaied. Mr. John Hemng, Acton Beauchamp, VorcesterShhre, had for some years a stock f common Hereford cows, of red color. ritli white faces, which uniiormly produced alves of the same c? lor. To this stock 1 r. Heming used a bul, of the improved ireed, one season only. The consequ' nee ras, that the buirs marks, dark spots on the ace, appeared in ftlmqgt all bis calves, and ire prevalent in his descendants, to tba >resent day. Mr. Fleming's originals were ndiscrirainately collected, add deficient in weed or uniformity of characteriiliCfc ?pt in lb* white face. They weregeaertlHr mproved by the introduction of the weff. ired bull; and his breed, it is wggrete& nanifeste i its influence by the manner hi irhirh he conferred his peculiar color. Mr. Woodward, of Birlingham, Worcesershire, purchased twelve deep-milking fork shire cowi, without pretentions W ireed, or disposition to fatten. With there :ows he used 0 high-bred Hereford boll, ind in the produce lost the disposition to nilk, acquiring that of laying on fat. In a limilar experiment with the same cows aod mother Hereford bull, in the following year, le experienced precisely the same resu.ts. Comment is hardly necessary on these trong cases. The writer has been some years in poeession of an improved breed of pigs, which re chiefly of a sandy or brown color. His ows of this bree-l, crossed with corhmon ountry boars, almost invariably produce iters of their own color. Size only baa een obtained by the cross. The same esults have followed the use of his boars nth country sows; but the fact wbioh peaks most forcibly for his argument is, lat a litter of pigs from one of these balfred sows, by a h'gh-bred boar he is now sing, of a white tribe, are all white; blood ius strikingly evincing its efficacy in ton. jrring characteristic traits. , , The writer's brother was also lately in e ii i ossession oi weu-ored pigs, whose pecuiritv consisted in a short pricked ear. The roduce of these pigs, when crossed with te large pendant.cared swine of North Vales, was invariably similar in the ear to le latter-bred animal, whether mafe or fettle. Hitiierto the instances and arguments adL uced have been confined to the structure, r external marks of animals, and if a satisictory conclusion may be drawn respectig these, the question proposed by the Highind Society as to disposition must be ioolved in it. A brief remark shall thereire suffice, offered more with A view to low that opinions are vtry erroneously enirtained on this subject, than from a coniction that the proceeding is necessary. The writer has known many tribes of nimatd disposed to break from their pasires, and has consequently heard it assert* i that particular cows conferred the dispoition on their offspring. Now the fact is, ,ic u/.nq nn maffnr nf rfitirtnaitinn at all. hut 'as a consequence of the animals in quea. on having very thin hides, which rendered tern impatient of heat and the attack of flies. : is thus too frequently that, for wattt of doe tteation, effects are ascribed to wroog auses. To suppose that either the male or feisle parent possess an independent inher. nt propensity to impress their oflspring, is > embarrass the pursuit of breeding in no rifling degree. Most parsons can judge of is fitness of that proceeding^ which aigM 5 improve the produce of an uficiqr an*, oal by the introduction of ooe superior.-y rhat lijce will produce like, or that ifl Qtdw tary instincts, two good snimahi wHl breed