The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-05-06
TROUT LAKE.

Red Polled cattle. four heifers and an
unrelated bull. from L. X. Cogswell,
of Chehaiis, Wash, the leading Red
Polled cattle breeder of the northwest.
Red Polled cattle are an established
bred founded centuries ago in the coun-
ties of Suffolk and Norfolk, England,
where they are noted as hardy. long
lived, easily kept, contented cattle,
highly priced for profitable production
of milk and meat. Their perfect color
and hornless docility make them many
friends wherever they go.
The first importation was by G. +.
Tabor, OF Putnam county, N. T., in
1873. The second importation was by
j. b. Mead, of Randolph, Vermont.
The dairy trend rapidly moved west
and l.. G. Cogswell. of Woodlawn farm,
Beloit, Wis, Bought Bouneer, the first
son of Ocean Maid. Ocean Maid was
the first Red Polled COW to cross the
ocean and her son was the first to come
to the Mississippi valley, and her
daughter, Ocean Maid Bird, was among
the first herd brought across the Rocky
mountains to Washington by MIR. COgs-
well in 1886.
On Nov. 20, 1883, at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, L.. G. C0gswell and II
other stockmen founded the Red Polled
Cattle club of America. This club has
since published 81 volumes of their herd
book and registered over 10000 Red
Polled cattle and the club now has a
membership of over 1900 among the
leading stockmen of the United States.
The Red Polled cattle are a dual pur-
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combine beef with milk to higher
degree than any other breed that exists
today. They make the best and strong
est cross on common scrub stock 95 per
cent or better being pure red and horn
less when so crossed. They are persis-
tent mixers and test high. Red Polled
cows weigh 1850 to 1908 and steers
have dressed 1872 per cent of live
weight, which has never been exceeded
by pure bred steers Of any other breed.
| Red Beauty, one of Mr. Smiths heif-
ers, is the granddaughter of Nancy,
the COW that took first prize at Oregon
state fair, Salem, in the dairy test, all
breeds competing, and her sire is the
famous bull, Romeo. His bull, Proc
tor, is the son Of Novel, the Red Polled
COW that was prize winner at the A. Y.
p. exposition, Seattle, and also took
sweepstakes at Spokane same year.
Proctor X mott is the sire of the world
champion Red Polled heifer that gave
1000 pounds of milk and made ITO
pounds of butter during March, 1915.
The valley is growing to be locality
where all grades and classes of stock
are represented. About two years ago
b. X. Richter brought in herd of high
grade pure blood Holstelns, and since
then several others have added Hol-
stems to their herds. They are pre-
ferred by many because of their COM
blned milk and meat qualities. K. L..
Melendy, Ed Novak and several others
seem to prefer the Jersey. 1t seems
to be largely matter of taste as to
which. is really the best. Many aim
for the dual COW, the COW with the Jer-
sey milk and the Holstein or Red
Polled beef. The real dual, or ideal,
COW is hard to find, like the ideal char
acter and ideal climate, although many
claim the latter is to be found here in
our valley. But the only way to i'm
prove is to work for the ideal.
The friends of Mr.. Lord regret to
hear that he met with serious acci-
dent which made it necessary for him
to 60 to Portland to hospital
The fair committee held meeting
at the home of Mrs. b. r. Richter
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Herbert Clark visited friends
up here couple of days last week.
Mrs. KoecK entertained party OF
. friends at dinner at the hotel Sunday.
The barn on what is known as the
Parmenter place was destroyed by fire
one day last week.
The fishing season is open. Have we
a gameswaiden? If so, he should have
gotten busy, as it is claimed outsiders
have been both fishing and hunting.
Early in the season there were CON-
plants as to the condition of the road
this side of Husum, but lately there
come good reports of the work being
done there. 1t can be readily believed
that the people of the valley will ap-
preciate this road improvement and it
is their intention to give full credit.
History often repeats itself. Each
spring the roads are so bad that the
belated traveller with loaded team
honestly believes the roads are little
worse than ever before and at such
times he is unable to find words to
truly describe their condition. But as
a matter of fact, we believe the roads
are improving every year and will con-
tinue to improve. The fact that the
laws are such that we cannot hope to
have hard surface road in this gener-
alton is disappointment to the farm
ers of the valley. as we'll as a rank in
justice. 1t is not because we do not
paysenough road tax, for our law max
ers have looked after that. And they
have also seen to it that the farmers
are not burdened with the responsible
ity of spending this same road tax they
pay. If you doubt it, MIR. Farmer,
look at VOnr tax hill