Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-09

| England is an admirer Of the Short horn
breed of cattle as Is evidenced by the
! following article from him to stock pa
| per:
| "You ask me to give you my ideas as
to the best mode of breeding Short-horns
with n view toward attaining the highest
Possible success in the production Of the
best individual animal.
If / were starting new herd of Short
horns should 5uv the best looking
females could lay hold of, combining
milking and beef producing qualities,
making doubly sure they were OF a good .
sound constitutional family. In this
northern district of England. of West
moreland and Cumberland, l believe
there is no class of farmers more particu-
lar in the selection of male Short horns,
and consequently you have TO try TO
breed what pleases your district and
your nelghboring customers best. There
fore we breeders must endeavor TO pro-
due" Il good milking Short horn aud
when dry a COW that Will quickly get fat.
believe We have short-hornS in this
district that combine, as q rule, the
milking and feeding properties in a way
that no other breed OF cattle in the
world can equal. AS beef producers
only. generally speaking, we have the
Hereford. the Polled Angus, the Devon
and the Sussex; and for dairy purposes
generally we have the Channel Islander,
the Ayrshire and the Dutch or Ho!ste!n;
but none OF the above breeds can COM
pare with or equal the Short-horu as q
milk and beef producer combined. AT
our great dairy show held at London and
at the Royal, the Short-hOrn dairy COW
STANDS supreme against all other breeds
of cattle when all are shown in one class.
As to the selection of q male Short
horn rs sire for stock purposes gener-
aly am always particular to try 10 OBJ
tan an animal with the best individual
merit. l always hesitate to Use bull
unless he is descended from Il good milk.
ing family. His dam ought to have a
good sized and nicely shaped udier, and
his grandam also. During tine last ten
or fifteen years l have used bulls de-
scended from the champion Royal
English blood. II any person
asks what l would prefer to use
as sire should reply cham pion of
England bull descended from a tirst-class
family on both male and female side. l
may state that have had the pleasure
of using IN the Green Head herd of Short
horns, something like ten Royal and
Highland of Scotland first, and cham
pion prize winners during the last ten
years. OF late years have sold some
thing like ten Royal English winners to
South America alone. MY motto in buy
ing male animal for herd purposes is
buy the best animal l can lay hold of,
descended from good milk and beef-pro-
ducing parent, giving fashionable and
line breeding only a secondary considera-
ton.
In breeding Short horns of the present
dav, when fashionable and line breeding
are fast dying out OF date. it is good
looking and strong constitutional and
robust animals that breeders must try
and breed to make Short-horu breeding
pay. 1t is my humble opinion that fash
ionable or line breeding, and the craze
that some people got for blood and fash
ion, was the greatest curse that ever oc-
Cured III Short-horn breeding.
The sires that have generally been
used at Green Head have had strong
admixture of Booth blood. FROM no one
herd in Great Britain of late years, be-
lieve, have descended more royal and
highland winners than the herd of the
late william Linton OF Sheriff Hutton,
w. York, who generally used pure
BOOTH Slree ana VINO was tQe DTeeOer OF
Sir Arthur Ingram and Beau Benedict,
used at Green Head and Englewood
Bank, two OF the most impressive sires
of late years, aud from which more
Royal and Highland winners have been
descended than almost any other two
bulls. If you have good sires aud good
dams think people are bound to breed
good, either for the show
yard or the sale ring. At our great an
nual spring sales held at Birmingham.
also Aberdeen and Perth, where some-
thing not far short of 1000 Short horn
bulls are offered by auction, in ninety
nine cases out of the 100 pedigree only
receives a secondary consideration at
the present day. 1t is no uncommon
event at Birmingham to see useful, we'll
fieshed young bulls Of mixed breeding
making from ESQ to f200, aud in SONY
cases sometimes more. Therefore,
breeding the best fieshed and best look
lug Short horns 10 still paying pursuit
in this country at the present time.
JOHN HANDLEY.
Green Head, M,lnthorpe, Westmoreland,
England.