St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-28
AN END SOUGHT.
Utility of Animals for All Pur
poses on the Farm.

Utility OF Animals for All Pur-
poses on the Farm.
1t has long been the desire OF some
breeders to produce animals from all
classes of stock that are adapted for
every purpose on the farm. They have
succeeded in producing many animals
that excel in certain characteristics. but
as yet no animal combines within itself
all the traits and merits that make
the perfect animal. The breeder who
attempts to merge all the breeds into
one must contend with nature to an ex
tent that renders his task one OF the
most difficult yet encountered: and,
though all efforts at improvement are
worthy of encO uragement. it is doubtful
If the attempt to create an all-purp0se
animal will be rewarded with the ap-
probation of the farming class in gem
eral, as such efforts rather lessen the
work of improving the separate breeds
by directing breeding into Improbable
channels.
OBSTACLES TO BE ENCOUNTERED.
A general-purpOse animal must gro W
rapidly, mature early, produce album
dainty. and adapt itself to all elm ates
and conditions. That an animal pos
sessing such qualifications cannot he
obtained is made plain by the fact that
in order to develop breed in one dlrec-
ion SD me sacrifice must be made IN an
Their. and it is that great drawback
which constantly presents itself as at
barrier. Nearly all of the improved
breeds have attained their excellence
for the purposes desired by sacrificing
qualities found in other breeds, and U
endeavOr to again improve them iii tnat
which has been yielded up for genera
tons in the past is 10 detract from the
dominant talent which it inherts by
virtue Of long and persistent adher-
ence to certain lines of selection and
breeding, loss that breeders will not
willingly endure. Climatic influences
also largely interfere to prevent the
contamination of the object, and the
productions of the soil are too varied
according to SectiOn) to permit OF the
Introduction of an animal adapted to
winter, summer, hillsides. full pastures,
shelter, exposure ana other variations.
ADVANTAGES OF MANY BREEDS.
The past teaches that multiplication
of breeds has resulted more favuraDly
than when but few improved breeds
were known. In considering cattle it is
found that the breeders produced the
beef-prUducing breeds, such as the
Herefords, ShorthOrns, Galloways and
Angus, by ignoring all other
qualifications, while the great milk
producing breeds, such as the
Holsteins. Ayrshires and kerrys, have
not been given much attention
as beef producers. Occasionally an
animal will he found that combines
large size, hardness, milk-production
and butter-yielding to remarkable de-
gree, especially among the HolsteinS.
but the breeders of such cattle dOuO
attempt to select them as beef-pro-
ducers. preferring to breed them for
the production of milk and butter. The
Jerseys have been bred almost
exclusively as butter-prOducers. but
at sacrifice of size. To at
tempt to infuse new blood into them by
resOrting to other breeds would prob
ably destroy the efforts and labor of
years. A generai-purpose animal must
be capable of living on coarse diet if
required, AMI rival the scrub in hardi-
hess, as well as keep fully up to the
standard of all other requirements.
With the many breeds from which to
select the farmer is more fortunate. as
he can take his choice and secure that
which he desires.