Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

very earliest times. There is perhaps no type of cattle of purer or more arcient blood, no type of greater pre- potency or power to stamp likeness on it's get, be it from whatever type It may. The Devon is a medium sized animal, not generally as heavy as the Shorthorn or Hereford, of rich, deep red all over except the white brush of the tail and some white on the ud der of the COWS. The back is stra: ght, the head neat, with bright eyes and an intelligent expression. The horrs are rather long, curving outward and upward, slender, looking rather more dangerous than they are, for the Devon is one of the gentlest of COWS. The neck is small at the head which gives an aristocratic appeara ce; is broad and muscular at the shoulders; the front legs are wide apart aud chest deep, showing good heart and lung room; legs are inclined in well bred animals to be pretty short; the barrel is round and close musc,ed; i; Joins even, hips square; rump smooth; tail long, slender and with a fine brush, which is always tipped with white. The Hanks are low cut and brisket deep,
 Perhaps the distinguishing char acteristic of the Devon is his energy; he has long been famed as a work animal, and the COWS have also been famed for their performance at the pail In olden days in New B gland there were famous yokes of oxen that could and did trot to carriages, per haps only on rare occasions, yet many a farmer took his folks to meetin' '" behind nice yoke of quick s.epping red steers. I think it must be admit ted that when, Devon was rightly bred, neither the milking qualities nor the form being neglected, it became the ideal farm animal, the true "gen- eral purpose cow' that is now so near ly a thing of the past. Devons are not now bred in purity as largely as they once were. I think that the reasons S may be found in the lack of interest in working oxen these later years; in the failure of breeders to keep the milking qualities of the DeNons up to the proper standard, and. in large part, to tickle Dame Fashion, who tyraniZes over the. matter of fact far mer nearly as, much as over his gentle wife.
 However, the Devon Is stro7g in the blood of our common native cat tie. Many a wonderful t'native" COW, that is held up as an object lesson of the inutility of high breeding, owes all her worth to her forgotten Devon ancestors.
 The first Shorthorn cattle were i brought to Virginia soon after the | revolution. Just 100 years ago Ken lucky began breeding Shorthorns. Sixty-two years ago the famous i'm | portations were made into the Scioto l valley. The Duchess blood came, in 1S40, from the famous MT. Bates to MT Vail of Troy, N Y Besides these 1 there have been hundreds of importa- tions made into many states. Today the Shorthorn is the most universally disseminated of any cattle in the 1 United States.
 l The Shorthorn is now considered a i distinctively beef animal, although it should be considered as a general 1 purpose animal; in truth, there have been, and, no doubt, are now, some l of the most wonderful dairy COWS to be found among the Shorthorns Breeders differed in their ideals ol what a Shorthorn should be. MT Bates and his school sought to de velop the milking qualities, other breeders neglected these in breeding for distinctively beef type. I fear that it must be confessed that the Shors. horn is not today as valuable in thf dairy as she once was and might be now had not milking qualities been somewhat lost sight of. However whether this has not been to the ad- vantage of the breed, looking at it as beef breed, is a question that I think must be answered in the affirmative Perhaps the highest degree of excel. lence can never be secured along two
 lines differing fundamentally as dc
 milk production and beef production
 The Shorthorn is, one of the largest
 breeds in existence; mature bulls vii weigh from 1900 to 1,S00 pounds. Int
 colors run from pure white to darl
 red; some spotted, some speckled ani
 some roan. In the United States tht
 red is the favorite color; in England
 curiously enough, roan or white seem:
 as much in favor as anything, and $
 pure white animal recently took 2 l c9r