Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-13
BETTER CATTLE.
A Lesson that Texas Cattlemen Should
PrDHr Rv

A Lesson that Texas Cattlemen Should
Profit By.
THE GAZETTE for over year has been
preaching the benefits of a better grade
Of cattle, and there Is no doubt. that If
the grade of range cattle was improved
the condition of the markets would also
be improved. The Breeders Gazette is
fully in accord with THE GAZETTE and
saws that fewer and better cattle will
vet prove the salvation of the industry.
Here is a whole sermon in a dozen words.
lisa fsvorite saying of the breeder of
poor stock, 1.-The feed makes the
breed - This however is q great fall
lacy. Where is the scrub that would
make thirty six pounds twelve and one
half ounces OF butter in a week, as did
Mary Anne of st. Lambert, or the for
ty-six pounds gwen by Princess second,
or that would weigh at two years 1850
pounds, as did Brant Chief, or 24l5
pounds, Munro s weight at three years,
or 1910 the weight of BritIsher as year.
ling. Free access TO all the feed grown
IN Manitoba would not do it. A visit to
the Union stockysTds in Chicago is an
excellent education. There may be seen
the lauk, thin fieshed one and q half
cent per pound Texas cattle being
slaughtered by thousands to supply the
home trade of the United. States, aud
here aud there q bunch of fine grade
ShOrhorns, Herefords or Polled Angus
worth from four to five and
ne-half cents per pound, too
good for the Americans, and are
shipped 10 England, where good beef is
recognized and appreciated. This winter
hiss fully demonstrated that Manitoba has
reached ami even passed the self-sup-
porting point, and at once must seek an
outlet for her beef cattle. Where is this
outlet to be found? If cattle of the right
stamp are produced, England will take
'aem at fair price; If poor ones are
Produced, they will go begging buyers,
IS no farmer in the Dominion of Canada
ever saw them beg before. And why?
simply because this class of cattle will
hot yield profit TO shippers under ex-
h'lng conditions II furnished at half
cent pound. As we have no great
manufacturing towns at home TO
supply, this fact will be brought home
VIII force TO our farmers in the
very near future. As more poundspf
oStteT class OF be 4 can be producedSTor
'ss' money by using q pure bred siIs of
40! OF the beef breeds even on the Gem
non COW, il i surely wisdom to breed
A'ng this line. 1t not unfrequently 90
Guns that the heifer bred in this wayE
Ils 10 her breeding, grows we'll, attain
.ls me condition for beef, and is soisls
~ that purpose instead of being kept TO;
reproduce her kind. This is selling the
sOoss that will almost TO q certainty lay
so!den egg. Il is not wisdom for every
.4''ner TO launch out as breeder and inn
s'''er OF purebred cattle, but il is simply
s-'l.lal 10 his best interests TO use
s"lo sire. II s pure bred sire is not
a"Aole otherwise, number of
- 'IeFS should unite and procure one.
--sy are 10 be had in our own province
'. excellent quality and at rates within
'-s reach Of all. While this article has
.s.T'red to the beef properties only of
ale, the same principle is applicable
'le dairy breeds. At all events aud
= every Instance use pure breed sire of
s 80 oFsed that most nearly fills the re-
ss-Lements according to location or in
.'1lal choice, and above all do not
~ Isl oreei the different grades The long
:. q breeding necessary 10 establish
- pure-bred cattle gives them crest
rspotency in crossing on commoRor
1le stock, but that these qualities eEill
y. @ausmitied by their grade progeny Is
- 81 all probable, hence crossing with
49,. 80 cattle is attended with verSs IN
Ssiain results 8