Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 297]

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283 of breeding; you cross with any good stock, and you by this course obtain a good dairy cow. This is the answer to Mr. Dunlap's question. I t will take, perhaps, years to reach the degree of success attained by our Eastern friends. But in a short tiixre the qualities of our milkers may be improved very much. I think the Devons make the best working stock; they are also always good milkers. Mr. PERIAM, in answer to a question3 said that seven-eighths was considered full blood. Mr. PARKS—I think the gentleman is certainly in a mistake as to what constitutes full blood. I never considered sixty-three-sixty-fourths full blood, although it is nearly so. I would not consider nine hundred and ninety-nine-one-thousandths full blood. There is one peculiarity of the Durham cattle—they have the habit of feeding better than other cattle. They will be hunting for food and eating all day, while the common cattle will hardly have energy to move from their places in search of food. Mr. PERIAM—I do not want the impression to go abroad that I am mistaken in what is considered full blood. I say seven-eighths is regarded full blood. That is, it is good enough. I do not confound u full blood " with " thoroughbred." Full blood is good enough. Mr. COBB—Full blood is not good enough. W e must have the best that we can command all the time. I think that Mr. Periam thinks so. Mr. PERIAM—What I did say, or what I mean to say, is that full blood is good enough for the many, the thoroughbred for the few. I am willing that the farmer who can't get the full blood shall have the half-blood, and from that go on improving all the time.

COL. 1ST. J. COLMAN'S LECTURE ON THE HORSE. Mr. President and gentlemen : I received an invitation from the Hen. W. C. Flagg, Corresponding Secretary of this Institution, to talk to you upon the subject of Horse. The word " t a l k " pleased me, and to this fact, perhaps, that I was requested only to talk horse, you are indebted for my presence at this time. I like that good old Anglo Saxon word talk. It reminds me of the times when the aboriginies of our country assembled around their fires and talked over the affairs of their tribes, and if our farmers would hold frequent councils and talk over the affairs in which they are interested, it