. The Southern planter . ances were extremely was found that Shorthorn grade cows not only produced as much butter per year as the best dairy cowsobtainable, but they also produced it about as cheaply; and while thus producing milk they gave birthto calves which were grown into beef of the finestquality, and which brought top prices in the particulars relating to these investigations may beobtained by writing to the stations which conductedthem. It is to be hoped that those testi will be con-tinued at the stations named; and that other experi-ment stations will take
. The Southern planter . ances were extremely was found that Shorthorn grade cows not only produced as much butter per year as the best dairy cowsobtainable, but they also produced it about as cheaply; and while thus producing milk they gave birthto calves which were grown into beef of the finestquality, and which brought top prices in the particulars relating to these investigations may beobtained by writing to the stations which conductedthem. It is to be hoped that those testi will be con-tinued at the stations named; and that other experi-ment stations will take up the same line of testing. No more important line of work could be engaged inby these institutions. Polled is generally known, the Polled Dnrhams are oftwo distinct lines of ancestry. One of Iheee Is pureShorthorn ; the other is essentially Shorthorn—that isto say, it is the outcome of successive crosses of pureShorthorn bulls upon muley cows of good size andform, and on their hornless progeny. These muley. Polled Durham.—Goodness 15th, bred by J. H. Miller,Peru, Ind. COWS, when the crossing was begun some thirty yearsago, were possessed of good milking properties, or atleast many of them were. The former are Shorthornin all characteristics excapt that they have no latter are essentially Shorthorn, and do not differfrom the former in essential characteristics except inso far as their milking qualities are superior, becauseof inheritance of the same from the old muley ances-try on the side of the dam 3. To these general state-ments there will be some exceptions caused chiefly bythe way In which the herds have been bred and ban-dit d. Where the herds have been milked, the milk-ing qualities of the muley foundation have been im-proved upon rather than injured. Beown Swiss Brown Swiss cattle are pretty uniformly good milk-ers. They have borne this character for are also good for beef production, but not quite80 good, relatively, as for mi
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