The Columbus journal., 1897-12-29

twO SdTlellcS VI IOuOcI 8IOW pleuIle
fully, namely, privilege" and "a
cate de PARA: both are excellent and
abundant. The native race of cattle
are worth at three years old from f3
to "a (nominaD, and after being put
on better feed for eight to eleven
months, they are ready for the butch
er, weighing from 700 to 800 pounds.
The breeders of Chihuahua, Tamauli-
pas, and Colahinla carry on an active
trade with the United States, where
the cattle are fattened for the markets
of st. Louis and Chicago. 1t was
thought at one time that it would be
a remunerative speculation to export
the cattle to Europe, either alive OF in
the frozen meat ships, but the first
trials were unsuccessful, as the Mexi-
car cattle are too small in size, and
their meat IL not good enough for the
European consumer. AS regards dairy
productions, the Mexican cattle are not
Of great value, as they only give a
maximum Of five quarts per day.
Breeders and others to whom the sale
OF milk is an important source Of rev.
enue, and whose farms are close TO
towns, have introduced Dutch cattle
to improve the milking properties Of
the Mexican breed. A large number
of the coffee and sugar cane planters
are now also cattle breeding, and from
inquiries made it has been as%certained
that there are large tracts Of land
which are not suitable for coffee or
sugar cane planting. but which are ex-
cellent pasture lands. AS the banana
fiourishes, the dairy COWS are fed up
on green banana leaves. The leaves
Of the sugar cane are also very tasty
for cattle. Combined with the growth
of coffee and sugar, cattle raising, 1t Is
considered, ought in the neal future
to make a considerable increase in the
value and revenue of the farms, i: is
regarded as one Of the elements Of the
future agricultural prosperity Of Mex
leo.
COntrollIn: the Sex.
Many theories have been advocated
as to how male CT female offspring may
be Produced; and yet, after all. there is
no theory in the matter, but a very
Dakota Farmer. Give a bull and COW OF
like ages and strength and cOnstitu-
ton. and the produce OF these may be
of either sex. But let the bull be old
or weak or out of condition, and the
calf will, almost without exception, be
,>ov >,,J xI;. -, onr>lr Tho 1auy nf ma.
ture trying to reproduce itself, because.
of the two animals, the bull shows evil
denCe of being the one most likely to
die first, and, therefore, the male calf
would be the M required to carry Oh
the breed. In short, the offspring pro-
duced is of the anne sex, as a rule, as
the weaker Of the two parents. This, l
know, is quite contrary to the most
general theory; but l have taken the
trouble TO study and prove it during
the past six and thirty years. n l
have found that it is invariably the
case, not only as regards cattle. but
also in the case of sheep, horses, n
human beings. When u colonies
were first settled and quantity rather
than stock was the one thing desired,
young rams were put to old. o
mouth ewes, with the result that e"e
lambs were produced in numbers as
is to twenty. But when the
and heavily leeced wethers were want
ed, old rams were put to two-year-old
ewes, and the result was that about
three parts of the lambs were rams. l
know that what l have written will be
by many, but l have prov
ed it correct during thirty-siX years OF
a farming life. at home and abroad.