The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-03-02

Mixing Breeds.

Sraue aOlSIeln peer, showing III TO
be very inferior in quality and
quantity, compared with that from
Shorthorn or Hereford crosses.
We now have butchers record
of the worth of Jersey grades for
beef, in comparison with a Short
horn cross He emphasizes his OBJ
servatIons with the remark that the
Jersey cross is the farmers curse.
He bought two-year-o grade
Shorthorns of a farmer in Oxford
township, for which be paid the
farmer $206, and was pleased with
the trade, and his customers were
pleased every time. they got piece
of meat.
The week following he bought on
the farm adjoining the short-horn
farmers three grade Jersey steers,
two years old, for which he paid
$62, and was badly cheated. He
saw it when he killed the steers,
and he fell it every time he sold a
piece TO a customer The meat was
wrong in color and texture. The
fat, what little could be seen, was
about the kidneys or next the skin,
and the steaks were as dry as veni.
son. He thinks the farmer who
will raise grade Jerseys will soon
find his way to the poor-house. He
declares he will not buy a grade
Jersey at any price for beet. The
farmer who hopes to improve his
cattle by Jersey crosses will do well
to look at the facts.
IL milk and butter are the sole
objects of cattle raising, the Jersey
cross is admissible, but when the
farmer expects 10 raise and feed of
his steers he can not afford to use
the Jersey cross. When men get
clear ideas Of their wants, and then
know fully the traits and habits oil
the animals most profitable for their
chosen purpose, they will not cross
Jerseys on Shorthorns for beef, OIL
Bsntams on Brahmas for eggs and
meat, or the Clydesdale on the Ara
bian Tor producing roadsters.
We have already a great variety
OF distinct breeds, each noted for its
own peculiar excellence and each d
noble example of the intelligent
breeders art.
crossed at random with any more
hope of producing a model or a
semblance of good thing than can
the typo hope to go into the artist 6
studio aud bv accident combine
colors and trace a model picture on
the canvas. The colors were good,
the brushes and canvass were fault
less, but the picture has no merit,
The art of breeding Is not the re
suit of chance. The artist has be-
come an expert in combining col
ors, and so arranging them on the
canvas as to embody his ideal. The
successful breeder is an expert. He
knows something of the nature OF
the breeds and bloods he would
mingle. He knows something oil
their past records and their prepU-
tency, or power to produce theil
like. He makes no violent crosses
and does not attempt to transform
the nature at once, or by one cross
He knows he Can improve the &C
ton of his cold blood by one thor
oughbred cross, but he does not ex
pect to have prize-winner in the
first produce.
70 hn OF
of cattle of good size and quick
feeding qualities, and average milk
ere, too, must not hope to trans
form them into good mixers by one
violent cross with some noted milk
ing breed. By the selection of thu
fittest of his own cows and cross
ing with some thoroughbred of sim
liar qualities he may sooner reaci
his ideal than crossing with animal
of such diverse characteristics.
Cross-bred animals mus be i'm
proved by use of thoroughhreds o
suitable qualities. Because a mel,
Is a thoroughbred does not argu,
that he is a suitable animal for tn,
cross. The breeder intuitively, a.
well as by the lessons of exp rlence
selects his crosses. The artist skill
fully blends the colors On his pa.
let, but he does not stop to think o
the laws of the com bin alton of color
Perhaps he could not always give
a good reason for some of his com
binations, yet he reaches after his
ideal in that way.
The breeder is in a similar sense
an artist. He has a d, finite idea
b. fore him, which he is aiming to
realize il his minglIr G of the blood
of different families, which he has
known TO possess and transmit with
marked excellence. Because there
are 50 lew born artists or bree iers
we have SO few good herds, and 50
much retrogression when men hoped
TO see improvement Of their stock.
Make no violent crosses is a safe
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