Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-26
PRACTICAL FARMING
How to Distinguish the Different Breed. the Tran
Unions tor Best Harvest
Garden Farm Boys Today COMPARED With P
Many Breeds of Livestock

| Farmers who undertake to study lit
all kinds Of domestic animals sufficient
10 recognize the different breeds soon
discover that they have tackled quite
4 problem. The Breeders Gazette con-
tainS tie following editorial:
1T is singular how the names of the
! Improved breeds of cattle trip MANY
FARMERS. FOR the most part they are
| simple and readily understood and re-
| memhered, and there are not so manv
If them as there are of some varieties
! of fowls. Perhaps some little leniencv
| may be exercised toward those who
| cannot call al the breeds of fowls Nv
name ON sight, as of making new va
| rieties there seems to be no end
1 But with cattle il is different
| About the only stumbling block is the
| change in name of the Teeswater cattle
| from Durhams 10 Shorthorns. and tha,
| change was effected so many wears ago
| that II is strange that the old Durham
sim tcnaciOusly fingers. Ii is found
| chiefly in those countries where atten-
non has not long been given to i'm.
proved breeds, and just how it happens
10 get INTO use before the modern name
| Of Sh"rthorn is hard to understand
"a New Mexican reader desires ia
know the color of the Milk Durhams'
lie has been informed that Milk Dur
hams should show no white He indi-
Gates That he mas a glimmer of the
ruth when he asks if Milk Durhams'
are Tie same as POlled Durhams or
Shorthorns. Doubtless the adoption of
The name Polled Durham for the horn.
less ShorthornS has had much Ia a.
with the survival of this confusion of
names. Dairy ShorthOrn is the acc.nt
td name for what our CORRESPONDENT
calls Milk Durhams'
The historic colors of the Shortborn
are red, white, red-and- white or roam
The notion tina: a Shorthorn can oarr,,
no white spots is likely a relic of tho
"ld days Of the red color craze Tho
ias' question asked by the New Mexi-
can reader is why no notice of Mill |
Dui ndihS IS seen in The Gazette.
,oiisiuerabie has appeared concerning
'i'e oal"y on milking Shorthorns. That
more mas not been printed is the fault
VI THOSE VINO own these yaluab BILE dual
purpose cattle"
IL IS doubtful if one farmer in a
hundred can correctly name all the diff
lereht breeds of cattle on sight and
'iiere IS probably not one farmer in n
thousand who can name on sight all Tho
"ltcreat breed of domestic animals thai
are grown on farms in the United States
! ihink we might carry the assertion q
Ht'le farther and say that there are
iIlEhty few agricultural editors who ca
do it.
!, IN, IN horses there are several breeds Of
AZ, AZ .IterS BESIDES trotting stock and sad.
i've w.,n horses s|sse There are from sixteen TO
~ II daf plt.us at9Sether. types that are
w IL defined and SHOULD be understood h.
IN, general farming community. 'S
n cattle there are Hereford Anpns
galloway, Brown, Swiss, Shorthorn
"rban, ;, iighland Red Polled. Polied
F SGi'e G,c Guernsey, Holstein-Friesian, Jer
II is not TO be expected for ! moment
h faat any ny, one man can get all this in his
i'au with sufficient accuracy to mass
Jmdsihtht on the merits Of more than tuo
Or Or, three breeds out sof tho whcfa lot
", Wnen the vast subject is considered in
lhlS liSft. il is not to be wondered ina
s ,ii, N'":Y sample questions are asked Of