. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . reponderance of blood is clearly the Short-horn, or, as it was formerly called, the Durham, which wasimported systematically seventy years ago, and has beenlargely intermixed with the native stock in many localities,chiefly in New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and New England the preponderance of blood is Devonand Ayrshire, these lighter cattle being better fitted forthe rougher and less luxuriant pastures of the three breeds seem to be chiefly mingled in thenative stock, and if a most careful selection had been
. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . reponderance of blood is clearly the Short-horn, or, as it was formerly called, the Durham, which wasimported systematically seventy years ago, and has beenlargely intermixed with the native stock in many localities,chiefly in New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and New England the preponderance of blood is Devonand Ayrshire, these lighter cattle being better fitted forthe rougher and less luxuriant pastures of the three breeds seem to be chiefly mingled in thenative stock, and if a most careful selection had beenmade, with a set purpose to get useful cows, no betterchoice could haye been made. Occasionally may be seenthe white face and brick-red color of the Hereford, andmore recently the Jersey and the North Holland (or, asit is now called, Holstein-Friesian) breeds have becomelargely intermixed with the native stock. But it is wrongto suppose that a mixture of many excellent breeds willproduce a race of cattle combining all the good qualities cows FOK THE DAIRY. 31. 32 THE dairymans manual. of the progenitors. Unfortunsitsly, the contrary is thecase, and all the bad qualities are more likely to be per-petuated. Trying to improve the native race withinitself is usually unsatisfactory and a slow process, thebetter way being to select the best of the cows and crossthem with a well-chosen pure bred bull of a suitablekipd, either for milk, cheese, or butter. It is a matterof considerable importance for the dairyman to selectthe right breed for his purpose. The Shorthokn Breed is, perhaps, the most valu-ableoTfll^ those used in dairying. If there is any onebreed which may clairnLto^be the most suitable for gen-eral purposes, as for milk, cheese and butter, and beef,when no longer profitable for these, it is the or grade Shorthorn cows are more largelykept for milk dairies and for cheese making than anyothers, because they are good milkers and fatten qiiicklywhen dry, an
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