The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-07-25
THE cows.
{ By F. w CulbertSon,)

wear that sells for 80 cents per pound,
where is your profit? If she produces
$40 pounds. and that is stated to be
the average, it leaves you $12 per year |
only 81 per month. Is her calf worth |
anything for a breeder? The 800
pound COW will make profit OF about
$50 per year, and perhaps raise good
calf. The 400 and 500 pound cows are
not such a scarce animal the last few
years. There are cows that have pro-
duced 1000 to 1900 pounds of butter rat
in 365 days. The calf alone from these
cows is worth $1,000, and up. You may
know that from nature COW only
gives enough milk for her baby call,
and then she goes dry. For several
thousand years some cows have been
bred each generation to give surplus
of milk, until at the present time the
cows of some families of dairy breeds
give a great quantity of milk. The
writer was raised on dairy farm.
We had the Jersey cattle. They are a
good dairy breed. There are several
good dairy breed of cattle. Some are
too small for beef, some of them are
inbred to large extent.
We wish to see community breeding
and mention one breed suited to this
we Will puOtC llOili thC "
S. Department of Agriculture farmers
Alvord. 1t is mutual in describing all
of the ten dairy breeds:
Origin of breeds-The different
breeds of cattle to be found in the
United States all came from Great
Britain and the western portions of
Europe, and It is not at all unlikely
that they have common origin in the
wild cattle which existed in the
ancient forests of Europe. These
were described by julius Caesar,
Pliny and other Latin writer's almost
two thousand years ago, and by others
who wrote of them century or two
later as Astounding in the great forests
around London.
In the early history of these cattle
natural causes tended to divide them
into two general classes; first, those
adapted to the more mountainous and
less fertile sections of country, and,
second, those of the plains and richer
regions. The former, owing to great
er scarcity of food and more difficulty
in obtaining 1t, We're smaller, more
rugged, and rOugher in type than the
better-bred animals of the latter class.
Later, breeding and artificial condi-
tons, together with natural causes
resulted in additional varieties among
cattle and led to the distinctions
which became fixed in different
breeds. The chief characteristics re-
sulting from mans interference and
control were to be first seen. on the
one hand. in tendency of the animals
to mature at an early age and easily
to lay on flesh and fat, and, on the
other hand, in prolOnging the natural
period of milk flow and increasing the
milk product much beyond the needs
of the calf
AT the present time each of the var
ious recognized breeds of domestic
cattle may be satisfactorily placed in
one or two great classes designated,
respectively, as beef cattle and dairy
cattle.
Origin and development-The
strongly marked black-and-whit cat
tie of North Holland and Friesland
constitute one of the very Oldest and
most notable of the dairy breeds. The
historians of this race claim that it
can be traced back for two thousand
years continuously occupying the ter
ritory named and always famous for
dairy purposes. Tradition has it that
two ancient tribes located upon the
shores of the North Sea before the be-
ginning of the Christian era; one pos
sessed a race of cattle pure white and
the other a kind all black. Men and
cattle then became amalgamated,
forming the people and herds which
for centuries have occupied that
region Holland has been noted for
dairy products for at least a thousand
hn hna
upon which this reputation has been
gained have slowly but surely develop
ing their present form of dairy en-
cellence.
These cattle have been known by
several different mans in both Europe
and America Holland CATTLE
North Hollanders," Dutch CATTLE
"Holsteins." h-Friesians." Meth
erland cattle, and "Holstein-F Fries
ians" are all the same. There was
sharp contention in this country be-
fore the last name was agreed upon
and generally accepted. 1t seems I'M
fortunate that the simpler and suf-
ficiently descriptive and accurate
name of Dutch cattle" was not adopt
ed.
The large frame, strong bone,
abundance of flesh. silken coat, ex-
IRENE docility and enormous milk
yield of the Observation-Disclosures result
from the rich and luxuriant heritage
of the very fertile and moist reclaimed
lands upon which the breed has been
perfected, the uncOmmCnly good care
received from their owners and the
close association of people and cattle
The Roman dominion brought i'm
provements in draining and diking, in
methods of cultivation and of cattle
breeding, but no moisture of blood oc-
Cured with the inhabitants or in their
herds. The preservation of the Freis-
ian people and their continued ad-
hesioE to cattle breeding for more
than two thousand years is one of the
marvels of history. Always few in
number. the conflicts of war and COM
merce have ragged over and around
them. yet they have remained in or
near their original home, continuous
ly following their original pursuits.
Their farm houses are fashioned after
the same general model; the one i'm
mense roof covers everything that re-
quires protection. Here the cattle
find shelter during the long and rig
orous winter months. Here they are
fed and groomed and watched for
months without being turned from the
door. Here the family is also shelter
ed. sometimes with only single par
hntxl he 10 -ta Al.