The morning news., 1888-11-26
CATTLE for the Farm.

necessary in the selection and purchasing
of cattle for the farm, as upon the kind and
quality of the stock bought the profits de-
rived from said place very much depend.
Much, also rests upon what kind of tillage
is to be followed. This is a day of special
ties in every department of hand and brain
work, and it is also, exerting its influence
upon our farming industries. People are
rapidly being educated up to higher
standard as to their wants and require
ments, and only the best makes of cheese
and butter command the leading prices.
The inferior grades of these articles scarcely
pay for the trouble Of making, and meet
with slack demand, even from the poorest
customers.
We have some dozen leading breeds of
cattle, says the Baltimore american, all
good of their kind, and each one suitable
and necessary for certain kinds of farming,
and special soils and markets. The Jersey
may well head the list for the production of
the best of butter and for great quantity
of it; but they require good, rich food to do
this, and careful housing and grooming, If
profit is to be expected from them. For
fuAlAoedhlLle. AoA esiro ehi . OO9e
for their purposes, and are much harder,
as the one serious defect of this breed of
cattle is lack of constitutional vigor. This
defect, however, is being bred. eu5 by those
who exercise proper care in the selection of
breeding animals, and in not allowing any
animal to be bred from which is not fully
matured. Because a man has money enough
to buy half dozen animals and put them
on his place it must not be supposed he is a
breeder 1t requires much study, and long,
careful work, and by persons who take a
delight in the business, before one can
rightly aspire to tins name. The Jersey
breed, or their grades, will supply the wants
of those who seek for butter or cream, and
can afford to give requisite care and atten-
tion, and to see that this attention is given.
They cannot stand neglect. If the farmers
object is to sell milk or make butter and
cheese. too, the Ayrshire or the Devon
breed of cattle will likely meet his wants.
The Ayrshire. coming from the cold climate
of Scotland, where for several hundred
years they have been accustomed to roam
over those plains and hills and pick up their
subsistence as best they could, shelter being
absent often, and prepared food scarce,
have established the characteristics of en-
durance and the production of much milk
from foods which other more favored
breeds of cattle would scarcely eat. The
Devon breed, too, have sprung from just
such country in England. Either of
these breeds would suit those having thin
soil, abounding in rocks and bushes, and to
that style of farming that cannot afford TO
give the time and care to the animals, owing
to lack of means aud scarcity of help.
would not be understood as meaning that
they should not have proper food, care and
shelter for they will respond for all such
food and help; but if these are lacking, they
can, using western phrase, hustle" for
themselves and do very well. They are the
ties of the state, among the rocks and
bushes, and along the mountain sides, these
are the very cattle required, and their in
PRODUCTION there would supply a long
want. They yield milk rich in the fats or
solids, suitable for drinking when the cream
is removed, and when old. the cows fatten
up readily and make good beef. Their
calves are strong and hearty and vigorous.
The males make the best of oxen-quick
travellers, and can carry heavy loads This
is especially true of the Devon breed. In
many parts of the eastern shore their many
excellent traits are known, and they are
largely raised.
The Dutch" or Holstein, breed of cattle
are coming largely into favor. They are
noted especially for the production of milk
suitable for market or to be made into
cheese. The country they come from
Holland-has long been noted as the finest
and richest grazing country in the world.
These animals are large and great feeders,
and are suitable for our rich bottom lands
and the western states, where abundant
herbage can be had and where corn is
cheap. If these requisites can be had, and
a near market for the milk, they can be
handled with profit. But upon poor thin
soils, or upon high-priced lands, they can
not be made to pay.
If grazing or beef cattle are wished, the
shorthorn or therefore, are the breeds to Sc
lect, and to make them profitable, cheap
lands abounding in fertility and suitable for
growing n variety Of grasses are indispens-
able to success
In making a selection of any particular
breed TO place upon ones farm, great care
and much study must be given TO the sub
iect-the productiveness of the farm-what
is to be done with the products, the skill of
the former in his handling of the stock, and
his love for his business. For a beginner
Just starting in farming, it is best to COM
mence with native stock and grade up by
the purchase of good bull and select the
best of his progeny. In few years valua-
BILE experience will be gained and which
could not be had in any other way than by
actual work Reading about the different
breeds of stock, or seeing them at fairs un-
der their very best conditions, is not the
way to form correct ideas about what breed
may be the one most suitable for our par
ticular use Go to some farm where the par
ticular class of animals are raised and
| study out the methods of practical every
day business men before any animal is pur-
chased. In this way fewer mistakes would
be made and less money would be lost.
Agricultural "Reminiscences.
Sixty years ago this autumn, says Daniel
Lee in tue Southern CultiUator, farmer
of Middle Tennessee was elected President