Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-16
DEFENDS DUAL PURPOSE COW
Glover Breeder Assails Statement
Made in Address Before Yer
mont Darymen-

mont Darymens
The address before the Vermont
Dairyman's association by Charles L.
Hill of Wisconsin, ex-president OF the
Guernsey Cattle club, and published
in the annual report Of the commits
sioner of agriculture, contains some
of the most colossal mistakes and er-
roneous statements that it has ever
| been my lot to read.
Surely the claim so frequently
made in recent years that cattle which
are good producers of milk and meat
cannot be bred will find no fair-mlnd-
ed advocates today. The men who
propagate such heresy in view OF
what has been accomplished both IN
! Britain and America are IN fair
way to bring discredit upon them
| selves. from which there is no delIv-
! erance The time has come when the
possession of dual qualities in the
same animal is no longer debatabie.
Mr.. HilI's reference to the milking
Shorthorn COW might be summed up
as follows:
1st. The milking Shorthorn as a
profitable producer of both beef and
milk does not exist, or, as Pat put 1T
after he had stood and gazed at the
giraffe for two hours, There amt no
such thing"
I'd. The Shorthorn cow that can
produce a good beef steer cannot, pos
itively cannot, give milk enough to
raise a calf.
I wish to present few facts In ac-
tual farm practice under normal
conditions that will completely dis
credit the above falsities.
A feeder in Nebraska recently
shipped carload of steers, the prod
uce of milking Shorthorn cows that
topped the Chicago market at $12.4O
per cwt. Half of the cows in this
herd sucked two calves each. The
other half were hand MIXED and av
eraged 40 pounds daily through the
months of May and June.
Four cows of frst-class beef con-
formation, imported from the herd OF
r. w. Hobbs, averaged II, 739 pounds
of milk per year. Darlington Gran
ford 18th, noted prize winner at the
British Royals, produced eleven
calves and over 100000 pounds OF
milk in ten years. Other members OF
this same family havewon in the beef
classes at the English Royals that
have milk records of from 10000 to
! $4,000 pounds yearly Two cows i'm
ported by L. 0. May, Welcome Lass
and Milkmaid, are marvels for size
and beef conformation. They have
records of 1851 and 1920 pounds
respectively. GA bull from one of
these cows now heads an Orleans
county herd of milking Shorthorns)
Dorothy, another noted English prize
winner, produced 105,533 pounds in
ten years.
| At the Alberta government farm,
which has just begun the demOnstra-
ton of the immense practical value
of the dual-purpose type, nine cows
of perfect beef conformation aver
aged 9343 pounds of milk yearly. In
| the Crawford herd of milking Short
horns, 80 cows averaged over 10000
pounds yearly Over 100 cows in
the May herd in Pennsylvania, have
yielded better than 5000 pounds year
lily, % cows over 10000 pounds yearly.
Doris Clay, winner at many state
fairs, has record of IL ,224 pounds.
Rose of Glenside, 1905 pounds. The
COW, Oxford Maid, which was pur-
chased in Caledonia county by an
Iowa breeder, weighs 1850 pounds
and has produced over 5000 pounds of
milk during the past four months.
Nancy Oxford, the dam of Oxford
Maid, won first at the Vermont state
fair in a class of 10 cows, Judged al
most wholly on a beef basis, that
same day she gave 81 pounds of milk
on the fair grounds.
The Shorthorn steer, Joe, weighed
2060 pounds when three years old.
His dam, Charming Lass, gave over
| II 900 pounds of milk in year. JUL
cite is a cow that will weigh better
than 1900 pounds in milking condi-
ton. Her heifer calf weighed 1887
pounds when ten months old. Juli-
cite gave 4,614 with her first three
calves. Now / will leave it to the in
telligence of your readers whether
Charming Lass and Juliette, the pro-
ducers of such weighty youngsters
will give milk enough to raise a calf.
Mr.. Hill says they. cannot.
All of the records mentioned were
made by Shorthorn cows of good beef
conformation. They would average
to weigh around 1900 pounds in good
milking condition, possibly close to a
ton if feshed to the limit They
have milk records ranging from 5000
lbs to over 10000 lbs yearly and have
produced steers that have topped the
Chicago market and @won at the En-
glish Royals. Now gentlemen, if
these cows are not dual purpose ami
mails will Mr.. Hill and Hoard's Dairy
! toll hot