Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

Genuc0 kOE UCCk, WlOiSFSA Lam
soil are adapted for breeding purposes
Thus the half-breed Of one generation be
comes the three-quarter breed of the next
and the approximation to the early maturl
ty and beef-making capacity OF the thor
ouphbred will be rapidly carried forward
Fortunately for farmers this need is more
clearly manifested than ever before, at 6
time when it can be supplied to a far great
err extent, and, with rare exceptions, at 8
more moderate cost, than at any former pc
Rod. The Shorthorns OF America, as we
have recently seen it stated, must now
largely outnumber those Of Great Britain,
and, as we believe. are fully their. equals III
average merit. With the exception Of par
~ticular families of especial value only to
breeders themselves, we find the average, Of
prices going back to thefigures OF the past
while those of young bulls may almost be
considered merely nominal. Here lies the
farmers opportunity. We very much hope
that it will not be passed UNDECIDED, bu
that there will ere long spring out of it a
healthy and regular demand, of far greater
benefit to breeders themselves that the fit
full popular support hitherto accorded them
adding no trit,ing value to the stock OF
the individual farmer, and representing d
vast aggregate as applied to the beef cattle
of the country at large.
AS an example in point, we may instance
the great development that has been going
on within two or three years in the improve
ment of our sWine-an animal of course
sooner and more easily affected than the OK,
although the path of Improvement is SINH
lar in both. The foreign market for our
hams, shoulders, sides, and lard, to the
enormous expansion Of which we have re-
tered during the present volume, has slim
ulated the production of hogs throughout
the West, of u better type, and ready forthe
packer at an earlier age. Said the secretary
of the Chicago Pork Packers Association,
in q report quoted in these columns last
June: "Saitable hogs can now be raised
and forwarded to market within twelve
months, while a few years back it required
eighteen to twenty months to produce mar
ketabIe hogs of the old breeds. and they
We're less profitable to the manufacturer of
the product" AS an incident of this pro-
gress, w may mention the prizes on swine
at the St. Louis exhibitions, and the imper-
%tations, of Berkshires chiefly, into this coun-
try and Canada, for a few years past. The
lists of sales of the best of these Berkshires.
which have been published in our advertis-
pages, have seemed to many absolutely
incredible.
What we have described as a consuma-
ton devontly to be wished ard earnestly
promoted, in our cattle, and partially ac-
complished and daily extending in our
is equally within our reach as re-
CARDS the mutton breeds of sheep. We
heartily believe that aside from their own
there is nothing that would tend more
to promote better farming in this country,
than the increase of the keeping Of mutton
sheep, especially among the grain-growing
farmers of such States as New York and
pennsylvania. Something of an education
N their care and management, is indeed
necessary, and We advise no one to begin
rashly or on too large a scale. But expert
ence here, as in the better system of cattle
will be the best teacher. And sush |
grades as were shown by Mr.. Harris at the
asst exhibition of the State Agricultural So
,lety at Rochester, are the best illustrations
u what good Cotsweld blood will do in re-
modelling our common sheep to meet more
learly the present demand for good and
Early maturing mutton.-Co Country Semitic
nan.