The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-12-24
A shorthorn Record.
Butter

Professor Hacker In Hoard'S Dairy
man describes the cow Florence Air
drie vi. as of Bates breeding and rep
resenting an exceptional animal of the
milking Shorthorn class. She is COW
Of much quality and refinement, pos
sessing well formed udder and dairy
form of body.
He believes her records would have
been larger had the station owned her
from the time she was a heifer and
given her the care to develop her milk
ing quality.
Cow For the Corn Belt.
On the land in most of the corn belt
the general farmer needs a COW that
will give paying quantity of milk,
bring good calf each year and when
dry fatten rapidly into good block Of
beef, declares the Breeders Gazette,
Chicago. What is wanted is the kind
of COW described by @. q Wodehouse
of Woolmers Park, as quoted by Mr..
Wing in recent issue: You milk her
as long as you like, and then you eat
her. She is a joy from beginning to
end" That is the kind of COW which
will yield profit surely. But that is
also the kind of COW which brings a
long price in England.
A well known stockman when visit
ing in the United Kingdom this sum-
mer was empowered to purchase a
herd of dual purchase Shorthorns If
they could be obtained at reasonable
prices. The cattle were not bought,
which is unfortunate. 1t would have
been mighty fine object lesson had
these big uddered cows been placed on
exhibition here, so that all who cared
might see and study them.
The continuous selection by judges
in the show ring of cows with hardly
the semblance of udder development
tends to neutralize the effect of any
teaching regarding the dual purpose
character of the Shorthorn. 1t would
be mighty good thing if, when all
other things are equal, the judges
should give the honors to COW swing
ing good bag.
AS the case stands at this day the
man who breaks away from the block
only standard and develops the milk
ing qualities of his Shorthorns is going
to win out just as quickly as he can
make the proper showing for his herd.
They Are Kept For Money.
Here is what Joseph E. Wing has
recently said in Breeders Gazette,
Chicago: 81 feel that 1 came to England
to study the milking Shorthorn. have
believed in them so long and have had
them and MIXED them and seen them
and all that and yet such is the per-
versity of my nature that when l was
about to come up against them a Curl
GUS feeling, half fear, came over me.
I am afraid it is a delusion,' | said.
1t may be only dream. 1t may be a
myth. | am afraid they do not really
exist except in story and tradition.
These Englishmen would stick to the
cattle they were born with anyhow.
These men milk Shorthorns because
their fathers did. They ought maybe
to have Jerseys or Holsteins or what
not So either to confirm my fears or
dispel them chose first to visit man
living on rented farm for which he
pays about $40 an acre rental and
taxes and making milk to be sold in
the suburbs of London. This is his
only business, and he is doing it for
the money that is in it. Thus | chose
George Taylor Of Cransford. Mr.. Tay-
Tor says that the prices for registered
milking Shorthorns in England range
from $3.50 up; for unregistered ones of
good quality, from 500 up. His expe-
rience is that usually the registered
cows are the best mixers. He has
immensely increased the milk produc-
ton of his herd since he began keep
ipo rocnrds