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AMERICAN LIVESTOCK PUBLISHING COMPANYBiblio.com

AMERICAN STOCK BOOK. A Plain Practical and Modern Treatment of the Several Branches of Live Stock Their Care in Health and Treatment in Disease.

Alfred Musty [Matthew Henry Cochrane (1823-1903), Canadian industrialist and breeder of livestock]:Biblio.com

Autograph Letter Signed from Alfred Musty an immigrant to Canada writing to a benefactor Mr Challinor back in England to describe his 'first year' and including a reference to M. H. Cochrane 'the great celebrated Herd Farmer of Canada'.

13058Huntingville Eastern Townships Province of Quebec Canada. 29 September 1883. 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium. 77 lines of text. In good condition on aged paper with a little wear and a few closed tears along folds. He begins by describing his 'prospects': 'My first year in Canada I stayed with Mr. Bridges during which time I got a pretty fair knowledge of the country. I then decided to speculate on a woodland Lot of Fifty Acres price Five Hundred Dollars. I got my Deeds of the property on payment of half the purchase money the balance to be paid in three years.' He has been 'very fortunate during the past nine months with every prospect of doing a profitable business during the coming Winter' and thinks he will be able to pay off the purchase money within two years. 'My greatest expense will be in putting up a House upon which we are now busy and hope to have habitable in the course of another six weeks. During the Winter last myself Brother and son managed to clear about six acres of Land ready for croping. sic' Referring to M. H. Cochrane he writes: 'I am situated not far from Mr. Cockrane sic the great celebrated Herd Farmer of Canada. His Home Farm consists of one Thousand Acres with a Stock upon it that I think can scarcely be rivaled in England. This is principally the breeding Farm. His feeding stock is kept out upon the prairies where I understand he has as many as Five Thousand at one time feeding. His Export of Fat. Stock average about thirty head per day.' Musty and his family are well despite the 'intense cold of the Canadian Winter' during which 'for nearly four months the snow was three feet deep in this part of the country with frost from Twenty to Thirty degrees below Zero.' He believes that the following year will decide his prospects and has 'the greatest faith in doing well'. The letter is addressed to 'Dear Sir' and the only indication of the identity of the recipient is the following: 'My Wife send sic her best respects to Mrs. Challinor and yourself and says she shall never forget the kindness you accorded to us on our leaving England'. The author also sends his regards to 'Mr. and Mrs. Charles Challinor' and family. Huntingville, Eastern Townships, Province of Quebec, Canada. 29 September 1883. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni80,00 £GB≈ 91,34 €

Col C Morley Knight [Captain Charles Lewis William Morley Knight] (1863-1937), livestock breeder in Argentina [Charles Edward FaBiblio.com

Col. C. Morley Knight livestock breeder in Argentina. Autograph Letter Signed 'C. Morley Knight' to C. E. Fagan Secretary of the British Museum commenting on Oliver Lodge and other trustees and discussing the depression in Argentina.

14643On letterhead of Knight & Porteous 'La Maria Luisa' Bonifacio F.C.S. Buenos Aires Argentina. 21 October 1913. 2pp. 8vo. In fair condition on aged paper with wear to extremities. He begins by discussing his own holiday Fagan's and that of Porteous before describing the weather on his trip to Argentina from England with news of his plans 'I will try & get home for B.M. meeting 10th Janry.' Changing the subject he writes: 'Hope you are getting to work in the Spirit room. It is a pity we cant have Oliver Lodge on the Sub Cttee. His address bored me & I think it most disappointing. I hoped for something much more exciting. It was only anti-cock-sure-Schafer. If he had got in to Spooks earlier & told us a bit more about them & their unscientific ways it wd. have been more entertaining at any rate. He regrets that 'we dont have <> Harcourt in that Sub-Cttee & as he cannot be elected till May I suppose he can't be got in anyhow'. He thinks it will be 'interesting to see if Lord R. will turn up at any of the meetings after all the fuss or if he will continue to bury himself as of yore.' He reports that 'Floods have been tremendous in parts of this Province & Southern Railway had no end of a bother.' He still thinks 'Centrals are the best but Pacifics about 70 must be a good buy. Commercially things are bad in Buenos. Aires. a depression after the book of a good many years.' He concludes with a comment on mortgages and interest. On letterhead of Knight & Porteous, 'La Maria Luisa', Bonifacio, F.C.S. [Buenos Aires, Argentina.] 21 October 1913. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni120,00 £GB≈ 137,02 €