The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-22

have supplied much of the meat want
ed could not be bred.
Responsibility for the shortage OF
meat in the country Clings to the
skirts of those people. How can they
escape from such responsibility?
Would it not be fitting for those wise
teachers to clothc themselves in sack
cloth and to go softly because Of the
wrong that they have done to the
meat consumers Of the country? Had
they told the farmers nov to breed
dual cattle IN correct lines, they
would have had cows that would in
many instances have produced 5000
pounds of milk in a year, and they
would have had large quantities OF
beef to the good.
1T may be asked again what are
dual purpose cattle? My answer is.
cattle that will produce a large
amount of milk. that will produce
male progeny that will readily grow
into good meat, and that ave been
bred along these lines. Viewed from
this standard, Britain has four dis
tinct breeds. These are the milking
shorthorns. the Red Poll, the Lincoln
shire Red Shorthorn and the South
Devon.
THE breeders OF these cattle claim
that they are dual purpose. They
speak of them as such in their litera-
ture. They would resent the insinu-
alton that they are not dual purpose.
These dual cattle have been thus
bred in England for many genera
lions. The wise opponents of the idea
in his country say they can't be bred.
Were not those men very wise?
I'm America dual cattle are not nu~
merous. Why? Our wise dairy teach
ers said they could not be bred. They
said the transmission would be wob-
bly,, that one time it would be one
thing and another time another thing,
and that no dependence could be pIac-
ed upon 1t. They posed as teachers
of animal breeding, and yet they did
not seem to know about the first
great law of breeding. hat is the law
that like produces like notWithstand-
ing some variations. Those men fas-
tened their yes on the nOnedescript
scrub COW as previously intimated.
and thought they were looking at the
dual cow. They thought that the
1000 pound cow was the dual cow,
while the real thing was a 5000 pound
cow and over. They did not know,
and while they were doing this they
were drinking all the while at the
| dual fountain of state, money and
money from the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
THE opponents Of the dual idea
| claim that dual cattle do not equal
| dairy cattle in the production of milk.
Who ever claimed that they did,? IL
they gave as much milk and more
meat, there would be 10 place for
straight dairy cattle. There always
will be a place for them and a very
important place. That place will be
given to them because they are more
productive Of dairy products than
dual cattle, but they are less produce
tive of meat. Far be it from me 10
say n word against dairy cattle as
such. 1t is to maintain q place for
dual cattle that l am fighting.
THAT dual cattle properly bred will
produce good milk yields may readily
be shown. In England the herd OF
Robert Hobbs & Sons has produced
over 5000 pounds of milk a year for
several years. 1t includes each year"
about 20 per cent of heifers with the
first calf. The herd numbers about
200 COWS in milk. A South Devon
herd at Tatues in DeVOnshire aver
ages more than 5000 pounds per cow
and has done so for years. A herd
of Red LinCOlnshires near Lincoln
have averaged more h 5000 pounds
for thirty successive years. The herd
heifers every year. The old milking
shorthorn COW Dorothy at Tring gave
10000 pounds of milk for ten success
sive years. But it is not phenomenal
records that are wanted.
What benefit is IL to the farmer to
show him that a cow may be made
to produce 10000 pounds of milk in d
year wrecking the cow while doing it?
When you show him how to breed a
herd that will give 5000 pounds of
milk in a year on the average, and
that will produce steers that will
grow into good meat at twenty-four
months. so good that they will. sell
for 800 each, o have shown him
something worth while. If the dairy
teachers would stop their shouting
that dual cattle can't be bred, and
would go to work and teach the farm
ers thus, they would surely be in the
pathway of duty. ss
TN England nearly all the male
calves of dual cattle are reared on
skim milk in calfhood and grown into
beef. Some of them are fitted for the
fat stock shows. What a grand thing
it would be for North Dakota IL a..
bunch of these cattle were kept on V
cry farm.