The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-09

! hADL HaEAOu D4Al69Au NJ 4OO, IA ASA
ID. This line OF farming, genera
crops founded on a good rotation; rails
ing as many mllkinR 8horthorns as thr
farm can AIRY and dispOsing OF bee
and dairy cattle as t 10 Of the leading
sale producrs C n do more TO raise
values, pay mortgages, ard put South
ern farmers m ,Dg the most prosper
Gus people of the country than any
branch of industry yet opened to %
large q class f our Deopie. E + h
sHORTHORNs FOR THE FUTURE.
a paper RI al OeTore Cne LAVA Short
horn B end RS Assoriati,n at Ames
Dec 13 1899 by Henry Wallace, ed
cor OF WaIiace's Farmer.)
The man who can accurately fore
cast the demands of che future market
an can take adequate means to s Ipply
Ghe .e demands, Will never fail Of sue
cess
B -eeders of any class of live stock
Rho can forecast the want of the
fut Ire and can shape and adeps their
~favorite breed to meet these r require
ments will never have cause to com
PLAN Of low prices. Toe high favor 10
which the Shorthorn has been held for
a hundred a is due 10 the fact that
i5 has in a very great measure me-
satisfac5 orily the demands Of the great
majority of advanced farmers. The
Snorthorn is now snd always has been
the COW of the thrifty tenant farmer on
the best lands of the British Islands,
and is to day the favorite COW OF the
ordinary farmer on the best lands Of
the United States and Canada.
1t is not the COW for poor land and
poor grass in any part of the world,
ncr is it the special purpose dairy COW
ia any section. Neither ia the Short.
horn best ada oted to hard conditions
or inhuman exposure. There are brPede
that are better adapted to the prCduc.
ton Of milk and butter to the eXclu
sion OF beet; there are breeds that can
successfully compete with the Short
uOEu III bu0 u46bGCE u CA~AOc'NO OOO'
production; there are breeds b t al
better endure hard conditions. The
Shorthorn can look without envy or
isalously on any breed that cen meet
the farmers wants in the extreme
South or on the exposed ranges or in
special purpose dairy sections The
future of the Shorthorn depends OF
how we'll she will continue to meet the
wants of the tenant farmer in Geeat
Britain, of the average farmer on the
best lands of the NJr5h and West, and
OF the rauchmau on fenced range
where provision is made for more or
less winter forage These CLASSES oe
mend a type of cattle of good, even
large sz3, Of fine q ial,ty, vigorous,
and capable of en- u,Irg such exposure
as is consistent with humane treat
ment, and that can b turned to good
account in the dairy as we'll as in the
shameless.
Tnere is no breed, on the whole, bet
ter 6dapt6d Co fill these requirements
than the Shorthorn wisely bred and
properly handled. In a S1orthDrn
breeders meeting it ia, perhaps, safe
to say right out hat none, on the
whole, can fl the requirements 10
completely, espec ally If the breeders
1--we up to their privileges as breeders
and bring tn mseives up to the posi-
bIIities ut the breed
To fll taIs largest of all fislds in the
future as iG ehould be Fl led, breeders
need TO retire ve If p1ssIOle some of the
mistortuuPs and correct some m'ssakss
OF the pass and rem v, If possible,
some Of the ~hInorsnces thai are Cbvi
Ou4lv in III IL way. IG 10 a temporary
misfortune for any breed to be extern
sively popular aid for thai reason
widely distributed. When a bret d
reaches a high standard breeders are
apt to claim for il all that it de serves
and sometimes more. minimizing and
IN experienced farmers, believing that
''0lOod tells" and like begets like"
invest, and so feed and car for their
purchases that deterioration of the
breed becomes certain and frc q1antly
quite rapid They exoecG the pedigree.
or rather the heredi5y of which the
p9d'gree Is the wi5ns S to work mira
cles. Tney overlook the other halt Of
the truth that the proper euvironm mt
wall work wonders aIso, but in the line
o. Deterioration In other words.