Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-07-09

purposes and not fatten any for beef,
will not use any other breed, as the
steer calves and barren cows meet with
ready sale at a good price. 1t is well
known that Short-Horns mature early
and make a fine quality of beef; this
fact shows itself at all fat-stOck eXhibi-
tiOns the world over So it is useless to
advocate their extra beef qualities, and
unprejudiced persons who have kept
posted on dairy stock must see that
Short Horns do not lack in regard to
milk and butter. | suppose it would be
hard to find any other class of cows, as
a ukOic, that could supersede this in
milk and butter. These cows do not go
dry (if cared for during autumn), as
many claim, but continue to milk up to
within six or eight weeks of parturi-
ton, though it is unwise to milk so near.
All cows should have at least two
months to recuperate and flesh up.
Thousands of Short-Horns and their
grades are to be found that will give
from fifty to sixty pounds of milk per
day, and such cows generally fatten cas-
lily when dry. We do not claim that
this coordination COW" will give any
such amount of butter in seren days
as is claimed for the Jersey cows, "Mary
Ann of st. LAMBETH and "Princess
Second"-the former giving 1863 pounds
in seven days, and the latter 46 pounds
12I ounces in seven days-though they
possibly might, if crammed to the same
extent with the same kind of rich feed.
But we do claim that many of them
will give over two pounds of butter per
day aOithOot much pampering, and that,
as a class, when the milking qualities
have not been bred out, they will go as
high (OR HIGHER average for the sea-
sony as any class to be found on this
continent, and that there are feUer poor
mixers i'm the Short-Horns and their
grades than in any other class of cows.
But the average is lowered through
the persistency of many breeders who
pamper for show purposes, or to fix
cows for sale, in drying off the cows
soon after parturition. Such COWS soon
cease to give full flow of milk, and
few generations will fix the evil perma-
nently in most of their descendants. 1t
may be said this is not the case with
Short-Horn grades that are deficient in
milking qualities. Why not? 1t af-
fects the grades greatly, if not to the
same extent as thoroughbreds. AS the
Short Horn bull used, being the off
spring of those cows whose mammary
glands have been partially dried up, the
result on their offspring is the same,
whether thoroughbred or grade.
l suppose the majority of land-own-
ers, who use large portion of their
land for milk and butter purposes, need,
and prefer, class of cows that will give
good average when put on good pas
ture in summer, and fair amount of
suitable feed in winter, rather than the
petted kind like the Jersey cows above
named, and many Others which are
crammed with so much rich food,
which is unnatural and injurious to the
condition of the animal.
The former class, we claim, can be
found in the Short-Horns and their
grades, and still to a greater extent, but
for the reasons already given and when
the cows cease to breed, can be fattened
to give good, large, saleable carcass of
beef, and whose steers can be, in early
life, made to produce carcass of beef
suitable for the block of any city
butcher, which may be equaled but can
not be erceNed in richness by any other
class of cattle. r. BAKER.