Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-20

nearer the ports of Central America
than San Francisco. Surely we cannot
afford to miss this opportunity when
we have it now presented. Australia is
demanding Canadian Holsteins. why?
Japan shipped six cars of high class
dairy cows this summer from Canada
to the Orient. Why?
Dairy breeders, let us be up and do
ing and make the Pacific coast do it's
part in supplying the needs of the
world in dairy stock.
Beef Breeds
The champion Hereford bull of Eng
land in 1904 was offered to an .Ameri-
can breeder for the sum of $4,000. An
agreement was made that if he could
stand at the head of his class at the
international in this country, this price
was to be paid. He stood eighth in
class, demonstrating to the world that
ing high class Herefords; This has
been further demonstrated this year,
as the leading breeders of Argentine
republic have been buying their herd
headers in this country, instead of in
England. In 1905 a 2-year-old Pacific
coast bred Hereford heifer was made
grand champion of the breed eastern
exhibitors showing) at the Lewis &
Clark exposition, demonstrating to
America that the Pacific coast can
produce champions. According to AL
fred Garter the best shiPmsnt of
islands was the product of careful
breeding on the Pacific coast.
Short horn men have done much
for the red. white and roam on the
Pacific coast. At the ST. Louis worlds
fair, the aged herd from the Pacific
coast won. That same year one of the
great showmen of the east travelled
across the continent to the Pacific coast
to get a 2-year-old heifer to fill out
his show herd. If the beef men of this
coast will stay with the game and
never sell a good stock bull that has
made record, no matter what his
age, they will, at a time like this,
when the ports of Great Britain are
states breeders with what they vainly
seek from England.
The gap in the market price between
common and high class cattle gets
calves must strive to produce animals
that are thick in flesh dean meat or
muscle) over the entire body. The
beef producer has been slow to learn
of the Importance of thick flesh in beef
production. We must have the right
combination Of flesh and fat to make
beef of prime quality, and to do this
the animal must be naturally thick
muscled. Quality of flesh can be ac
quired by proper feeding. but quality is
a natural inheritance; This can only
heshed animals. steer may be ripe,
but not thick fieshed; another steer
may be thick fleshed but not ripe.
Neither will top the market.
sheep on the Coast
The Pacific coast is perhaps best
known to the breeding world for the
sheep it has produced. The villa
m mette valley in Oregon is now known
all over this country as the nursery
for Coltswold sheep. The Southdowns
bred in this valley have also become
famous.
Only last year a Shropshire breeder
from California shipped a few head
east to compete with eastern and for
eight hockS. In every case where Il
coast bred lamb was shown in compe-
tition, it won. The Merinos of Cali
fornia long ago attained a standard
fornia is written, the Rambouillets will
be told of. One breeder, who is now
across the Great Divide, will long be
r. embe cred as having set the standard
for the word.