Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-05-01
BEST BLOOD.
Is There Such q Thing as tho Best Breed
of Beef Catt1e7

A great many farmers in tho states
camo TO tho conclusion when the rungo
business was started that there WINS no
use to raise and feed beef cattle any
longer. But only $50 900 western range
cattle wero on the Chicago market for
1S00-about 0 per cent. Of tho entire re-
ceipts. With receipts at Chicago Of
$500, 900 cattle, not over 10 per cent.
could be classed rs good to choice, say
800, 900; this is probably an oyerestimate.
OF the entire receipts the western ranges
furnish 10000, Texas COO, 900, and the
States o,720, 900. The good to choice
$50, 600 come from the states cattle; this
will leave 3, 1876, 900 that cannot be quoted
good
Now the work Of tho breeders Of pure
bred beef breeds is to find way by
which 2,375, 900 cattle that now class as
sorubs-coarse, rough steers-can be
raised to good and choice beef steers. 1t
must be remembered that this is only
fractional part of what Is to be done, but
this Is enough to start with. | know the
breed that will work this change. Colonel
J. w. Judy and others know Of another
breed that will do it. I. w. Harvey
and others know Of another breed that
will do it. And it is more than likely
that either one Of the breeds would do it
if they could be put to work. The best
Of the produce Of either one Of these
breeds has sold at six dollars and over per
100 pounds Mt the Union Stock Yards this
winter, as bad rs the markets have been,
and the more Hereford, Short Horn and
Scotch blood there is in these bullocks
the easier 1t is to get ON cop.
For four years past very little has
been done to improve the cattle Of the
states or on the ranges. The Big Four
have held the top and bottom very close
together. \ good portion of the time
the bulk of the native steers have held
between three and four dollars per 100
pounds, and now the number that get to
five dollars and over is very small. 1t il
coming however, and my judgment is
there will be a steady advance to six
dollars and upward. AS cattlemen real
izc this they will want to get there"
and to do this they will want our bulls,
and they cannot get there without them.
For twenty years there has been Il
warm competition between breeds, and
twenty Years ago there was a general
opinion there was but one breed that
would produce the steers that would take
the top place in the markets Of the
world, and that breed was supposed to
be the Shorthorn, and 50 sure were the
breeders of that breed that they occupied
this place that they ignored all outside
60 &
this breed were brought forward III com
petition with each other.
At about this time the EIereford5 came
forward with their claims, and then the
Scots came with their claims. They
have now been before the public with
competent Judges to pass on their merits.
They have also been on our best markets
and Judged by expert buyers, and each
Of the breeds has gone on to the show
grounds and divided the honors with the
other and on the markets each has made
top figures. So We need not wrangle
among ourselves.
The fine stock breeder has only to be-
como familiar with the class Of cattle
coming on our markets to become con
WINGED that the use Of our pure bred beet
breeds has become necessity, and it Is
only necessary tor breeders to make
known the merits Of their breeds to Sc
cure a fair hearing; and to TINS end W,
have not to go to history or to a Longtime
ancestry to show what they can do, but
we can point to the markets of tn,
last year to show the difference in value.
* between the product Of scrub bulls
and that of pure bred bulls Of the beef
breeds.
Beyond this we shall be able to show
that the product Of the pure bred can 70
to market at , years old weighing l,4OI
pounds rs easily az the product of the
scrub can 20 10 LOO pounds at year,
old, while the quqlity of the product 81
the pure bred is such that We can max,
them worth from siZ to seven dollars pc
100 pounds, while the product of tn,
scrub will bc Of quality that will b,
worth but from $3 to $3.50. We can SHOW
further that the 600 bullock has no
cost more than the forty dollar bullock
That is the position we occupy in rela
ton to the beef product of the country
Cor. Breeders Gazette.