Omaha daily bee., 1882-12-14
Keep the rnoroushbreds Pure.


There is quite a difference between
crossing the pure bred animals Of sep.
arate breeds aud crossing the pure
breds on common stock. By using
thoroughbred malesth h common herds
or hocks can be elevated to n higher
standard and at q small cost, for the
reason that the thoroughbreds are
fixed in peculiar characteristics, and
have the power to transmit and i'm
press their qualities strongly on their
offspriugs. They impart uniformity
of color especially, and as all breeds
excel in certain peoulisrities, while in
ferior kinds possess no particular
abilities, the dominant quality be-
comes . fixed habit, and it is to this
fact that we arc able to breed in any
direction for the attainment OF special
objects. But it is something
e,ne In breeding together thorough.
bred ANIMALS of different bteede,
The Jersey cow is the reault of years
of labor. Her qualities for making
beef have sacrificed, her muscles
weakened, her frame reduced aud the
character of her milk charged in order
to create the butter COW, She is not
. great mixer III quantity, nor is she
fit for the dairy where the quality 10
no object. She has been bred for "a
single purpose Only. which IL '6e pro.
duc.ion OF butter. She is exactly the
opposite of tho larger breeds, and
bears No relation 20 them, Az The
Jersey COW ia 6 butter-producing ami
NAL sno is therefore a living factory
for butter production, and if we de.
sire an animal for milk alone we must
breed the Holsteina and Ayr.
shires, which are specially adapted
for such purpose. BY crossing the
Jerseys and Ayruhires we divide the
p%ropensities for both milk aud butter,
and the crossed animal ia inferior to
both parents. It's heavy milking prop
critics are lesaened and the butter
yields are smaller. Sometimes by the
superior power of either parent frat
| clnsa anim,ls are produced, but the
breeder con 90 no further with the
cross, as the crossed animals are of no
fixed ty pc and cannot reproduce their
points of excellence with any degree
of Certainty on their young. The
samo may be noticed with horses.
The Thoroughbred will improve the
common stock, but a CROSS between the
runner and a trotter will not
produce a runner, though the
trotter is sometimes benefited BE-
cause it 10 not exactly a thoroughbred,
and the benefit is derived from tn,
finer bona strength and endurance OF
the higher bred horse. A merino
and Cotswold cross destroys the comb.
ing qualities of the wool from the
Cotsgold and takes away the tineneHs
of that belonging to the merino, and
the produce of the white.colored Ches-
ter hog and the black Berkshire is in
ferior TO either. The thoroughbreds
are posaeasoIs only of n particular
dominent quality to each breed,
though often good in other qualities.
This excellence is stamped on inferior
kinds, or it's own, only. When united
with another ~ equal intensity, the
union is incompatible and is not por-
manent No animal is a general
purpose animal, and the only way in
which we can improve our thorough
breds is to keep them pure, selecting
our breeding animals from the best
herds, each year ~endeavoring to more
permanently establish and adopt the
breed to the services reqri"ed Of it;
but as it required large periods of time
to bring each breed to its character
istie ok ee)lence al outcross only rem.
ders T. citicul. to improve and is Of.
tod "a back ward step