The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-06

| must KNOW now 10 mli.. as well as 10
iced: must know how to weigh and
| test. and be able to furnish proof be-
yound question of milking quality In
other words, if we are TO be supplied
with feeders at reasonable prices, we
must have new kind Of breeder. The
beef qualities will show for themselves
but the milking qualities require
proof, and the proof will have to be
| furnished Breeders are not altogeth-
er to blame for this; for in the eye of
the farmer, fat sells. In attending
sales we have seen farmers who were
lratroniZing a creamery pay long
.,rices for fine fat bull calves 1.-THE fat
mess presumably being from milk, but
Iactually from heavy feeding in addi
tom, and allow better calves for their
purpose, because from better COWS, to
be knocked down at half price. IL this
way the milking qualities have been
to some extent out of the Red Poll.
There is fine opening for breeders
who will adopt the method used SO
successfully in England, where the Old
type OF dual purpose COW has been
maintained and furnishes perhaps
fourtifths of the milk that is consumed
in the cities of that county. To sue
coed in this line, the breeder must
adopt different methods from those
now followed in this country. In lay
ing the foundations for his herd, he
must get heavy mixers. He must ap-
proximate more nearly to the type Of
the old Bates Shorthorn. But what
lever may be the breeding, he must
have the actual milk producing capac-
ity; and he will find more of it among
Shorthorns of the old Bates lines than
in any other, for the simple reason
that Mr.. Bates MIXED all his COWS. He
demanded both milk and beef, and by
intelligently demanding it, secured it.
It will be absolutely necessary not
only to milk, but to weigh and test
the milk and thus furnish proof.
1t will take time to educate the
farmers themselves. They must real
ize that the extreme beef type is not
a milk type, nor is the extreme milk
type beef type; and they must not
expect to get the highest yield OF milk
and the highest yield of beef in one
animal Nature forbids that; but in
asmuch as the farmer of the type we
have mentioned is after a dual profit,
milk and beef, then he must have the
dual purpose COW. 1t is folly to say
that it cannot be done. The answer
is simply that it has been done and is
done in all the cattle growing coun-
tries of the east. They have not gone
color crazy as we did, nor pedigree
crazy, but have acted on the principle
that pretty is as pretty does" We
must get back to that principle our
selves.
1t is no more absurd to say that you
should have dual purpose COW than
that you should have dual purpose
sheep. These, in fact, are the favorite
sheep-sheep that will produce wool,
though not the very finest type, and
mutton as we'll, and a better type OF
mutton than is furnished by the sheep
that produces the fine wool. We once
heard professor in college say, in
a set speech, that the finest wool and
the finest mutton naturally went to-
gether. The farmers who heard him
make the statement laughed, as we'll
they might. We have dual purpose
chicken, and the farmers have almost
universally adopted it in the vest
while in the east, in the sections in
which the single purpose dairy COW is
produced, they have adopted the sim
gle purpose chicken, the chicken that
lays
It will take years for farmers to see
this, and for breeders to see it, but it
of land, who has roughness that goes
to waste, and no home market, can
find no better customer for his straw,
his hay and his corn fodder than the
dual purpose COW, provided he has
grace enough to milk her and suffl-
cient sagacity to find out whether she
is paying a profit or not. The young
man who will start out to establish
herd that will supply bulls, that can
perpetuate milking qualities and at
the same time furnish a fine type OF
beef, will in the end reap rich har-
vest; and the men who go into 1t the
soonest will reap the richest harvest.
--Wallaces' Farmer.
Don't Do 1t.
We all sometimes would like to cuss-
Don't do it.