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out in the range country, where they have used Hereford bulls, be- 

 cause they believed the Hereford could rustle better than the 

 Shorthorn, they find their cattle are losing scale and size and qual- 

 ity, and they are all resorting to Shorthorn blood in every direc- 

 tion to stay their declining herds. And as that country becomes 

 more developed and worked up, they are going in more and more 

 for Shorthorn cows everywhere. 



Beside these facts, there is another thing I will mention about 

 the Shorthorn, and I intend to object to a remark I heard another 

 gentleman make this morning. He said we must not breed an ani- 

 mal for milk and beef at the same time. I don't know whether he 

 meant an animal could not give milk and get fat at the same time, 

 or whether we could not combine the power of production of beef 

 and butter in the same animal. As a matter of course, when an 

 animal is devoting its entire domestic energies to producing beef, 

 it is not going to give a great quantity of milk, but that an animal 

 can do both at different periods does not need any proof. 



I know of two cows, one of which had made 417 pounds of 

 butter, and the other year before last made 415 pounds and last year 

 416 pounds. The last cow is as fine a specimen as I ever saw. She is 

 a Young Mary, and when she is dry she puts on flesh as rapidly 

 as though the whole end of her existence were the butcher's block. 

 Mr. Bates and Mr. Booth separated the two qualities, but Mr. 



Mason and Sir Charles and Mr. Knightly prided 



themselves upon the milking qualities of their cattle, and. the beef 

 qualities as well. It is the emasculated son that we want to de- 

 velop into the great beef animal, and we want the daughter to be 

 maternal in this function and be capable of filling any number of 

 buckets of milk. We can do it; we must do it. The high-priced 

 land we are sure to have throughout this country will not pay un- 

 less we have the dual purpose animal. An experiment was tried 

 in England for four years, and concluded last year, between a herd 

 of Jersey cattle and a herd of Shorthorns. You will find the record 

 in the London Livestock Journal. The Jersey cattle did not pay, 

 notwithstanding their great yield of butter. They were delicate 

 and infertile and produced few calves. The Shorthorns did not pay 

 as milk producers only, but the early production of their calves 

 came to their rescue, each cow having to her credit a good yearling 

 bullock every other year, at least. We must have one cow raising 

 two calves and another giving milk for the creamery in order that 

 they may be most profitable. All these things are going to be 

 forced upon us. We will have to do this. Why, I noticed the other 



