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little bullocks every season. The average age of the little bullocks was 

 twelve to fourteen • mouths, and they averaged right along a thousand 

 pounds. No one can lose money in handling cattle that way. I think if 

 every breeder here would make a practice of showing what a few high- 

 grade short-horn calves will do in making baby beef, having them rsjady 

 for market at twelve or fourteen months old, he will find he can not lose. 

 When I was in the business of raising cattle I did not s.ell when the little 

 bullocks were twelve or fourteen if the market did not suit me. They 

 would go on gaining until they were twenty or twenty-two months old, 

 but really the most profitable age to market is when they are twelve 

 or fourteen months old. I think it would be a good plan, in order to 

 extend the use of short-horn sires, for every man to give his neighbor 

 farmer an object lesson. They all want to make money. When you can 

 show them that they can take a short-horn sire on an ordinary grade 

 cow of the country and in twelve or fourteen months have a thou.^and 

 pounds of beef which they can sell at the top of the market anywhere, 

 you are leading people into a knowledge of the use of good blood. The 

 gain per day in short-horn cattle is always higher than in any other breed. 

 The cow that produces the kind of a calf I have spoken of, and the one 

 that gives the milk and butter necessary for the use of the family, is the 

 best. 



Mr. Douglas: I have always thought the short-horn was the farmer's 

 cow. She always has been for us. My first recollection of short-horn 

 cattle is a Kentucky sire my father kept. The cows raised good short- 

 horn calves, but we weaned them a little younger than Mr. Lockridge 

 says he weaned his calves for baby beef. W^e milked the cows after- 

 wards and made butter. I sometimes think the dual purpose cattle are 

 better than the ones we raise exclusively for beef. They were very 

 profitable to us when we raised them, because we sold the calves and 

 milked the cows. No other cow can compete with the short-horn. She is 

 in a class by herself. 



THE EFFECT OF INDIANA STATE CLASS ON THE EXHIBIT AT 



THE STATE FAIR. 



MR. T. J. CHRISTIAN. 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Indiana Short-horn Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation: It was*a great surprise to me, upon arriving home Christmas, to 

 find a letter from our worthy secretary, informing me that I was on the 

 programme of this meeting, topic to be, "The Effect of the Indiana State 

 Class on the Exhibit at the State Fair." Now, John went on to say: 



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