The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-06-15
June IS, 1902.
Milking Qualities in the Beet Bre eds.

''Suppressing milk secretion
tends to weaken feLundity and
thereby to shorten the reproduce
tive period of the breeding ami
NAL. The best mixers are al
most invaria bly, the best breed
ers in the world. The shv
breeders are rarely ever found
am 'ng the heavy mixers. Cows
that do not milk we'll seldom
breed regularly until advanced
age is reached, and what calves
they do raise will be stunted un-
less provided with a nurse cow.
The most important reason for
combining milking quality with
beef, however, is rarely consid-
cred at all. 1t is a prime factor
in maintaining smoothness and
quality: TO suppress milk is to
suppress fecundlty or breeding
quality, and to curtail or check
breeding quality tends to unsex
the animal. and as direct re-
suit the females become coarse
and masculine. They not only
tend to become coarse and mas
cullne in appearance but coarse
IN substance and texture. The
scant- mixer becomes shv
breeder and grows more gaudy
and uneven in her flesh. 1t is a
rare exception to find a Short
horn that will carry flesh smooth
ly and evenly to maturity nnless
descended from good milking an
cestry.
There is no doubt but that
cow that is a deep mixer and
regular breeder will hold her
true form longer than one that is
a shy breeder, gives little milk
and lays on flesh and fat quickly.
In animals retained for breeding
purposes this is serious obiec-
ton, but considering the matter
from the standpoint of d feeder
this Objectionable quality be-
comes a desirable one. The ten
dency to put everything into
flesh and fat means quick growth
and early maturity, qualities
which will always be sought af-
ter by the feeder. OF course, if
such animals are kept after they
are ripe they will become objec-
tlonable, but that is seldom or
never done with the beef animal.
This view Of the question is
one that we have frequently call
ed attention to. and advised
breeders to decide where their
customers would come from in
the selection of sires. For the
farmer who wants milk COW as
we'll as one that will produce
good feeding calf, large amount
of Bates blood will be more GER
tain to meet his requirements
than any other line of breeding.
But for the breeder who expects
to sell bulls to western men who
make a specially of growing beef
and regards deep milking quail
ties as undesirable, the more
Scotch blood theI is in herd of
Shorthorns the better. In the
issue OF the Breeders Gazette of
May Z, h. J. Kleberg, of Texas,
who is the owner OF a large cat
tie ranch, gives expression to
this idea in an interview with a
correspondent, in which he is
quoted as follows:
Nov the trouble with the old
Shorthorn cow for the range is
that she has been too good a
mother, too good mixer, too
persistent mixer. That makes
her get thin at time when it is
dangerous to get thin. Now the
new Scotch blood is coming in
here strong, and it is believed
that twill revolutionize the range
Shorthorn, and though the Here
fords do so wonderfully here
these people still love the Short
horn better and wish TO make
her as hardy as the Hereford
md homo with tho Scotch hlond