The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-06

No man can succeed in develop
most profitable capacity without pos
sessing d fair knowledge and under
standing of the methods calculated
to produce the best results in breed
ing The successful dairyman must
be a close student of the dairy COW
and her adaptabi.1ty, of picking
dairy traits and performance; of
bringing together and uniting FAMILY
pecularities; of dairy aorm, func-
ton and temperament and of the
advantages and dangers of close
in and in breeding and of line breed
ing to intensity and make permanent
the good qualities and eliminate the
undesirabl qualities.
Holstcin-E'ricsian and Jerseys
When the dairyman desires herd
Of cows for the city milk business he
will find the Holstein COWS the most
economical milk producers. for the
reason that they have been selected
and bred for that one purpose for
so many generations that they have
inherited the tendency to produce a
in butter fat. ON the other hand,
when a dairyman wishes to make
butter and cream his speciality he will
find the Channel Island breeds the
most economical producers for the
reason chat they have been bred
along butter producing lines for so
many years and generations that they
have inherited tendency To produce
a fair amount of milk very rich in
butter fat. The man who has a
rough farm and hilly pastures will
desire herd of hardy and vigorous
cattle and will find the Ayrshire COWS
best adapted to his farm and pas
lures because they nave been bred
and developed under similar environ
ments until they have acquired a
more hardy and robust development
than the refined and more delicately
organized dairy breeds.
How shall We Get Them?
How shall we get them? TO the
man of wealth the question is easily
solved he either visits some cele-
brated herd or sends his agent. the
selections are made and he pays
from $200 to $500 head for his
foundation stock The man with
small means, who depends on his
dairy COWS for his support visits the
same herd and buys a number of
culls for from $40 to $1o0 a head
and takes them home OF course
they are registered, but the breeder
would not have sold them at that
price had they not been the culls
of his herd. 1t is not the culls-
the pcdigroed scrubs that we need
so my a vice to the man of moder-
ate means would be 10 select few
Of the best grade COWS obtainable.
with the best grades Of the particu-
lar breed ana type We want we will
buy pure-bred bull of the breed
we think best adapted to our needs
/ cannot too strongly emphasize the
importance of good bull--the inn
portauce of his pedigree. But what
is pedigree? 1t is the evidence that
the bull descended from line of
individuals. all of which were alike
and Of one Kind. 1t is valuable in
are of his own breed, but also from
proportion as ii shows the animal to
be descended. not only from such as
such individuals in that breed rs
were specially noted for the excel
! leucies for which chat breed is cs-
teemed. Thus the pedigree pf a
dairy bull would be valued by the
number of heavy milking dams and
sires that were from heavy milking
dams that are i'm his pedigree. We
want bun with a good pedigree
the best We can get--but We ais,
want q good Individual We should
never select bull Just because he
has q good pedigree unless he pos
sesses individual merit. for one Is OF
equal importance with tho other. II