PROGRESSIVE BEEF CATTLE RAISING 



PART II. 



Cattle Breeds 



Breed As shown in the preceding para- 



Qualifications graph, beef cattle may come from any 

 of six specialized breeds, while dual 

 purpose and even dairy breeds show some beef merit. 

 Within the beef breeds themselves, there is more difference 

 between good and poor animals of one breed than there 

 is between the different breeds. Supporters of each 

 breed claim special characteristics for their favorites 

 which are supposed to make them better than their 

 rivals, but it has never been proved that the qualities 

 for which one breed may be famous do not appear in the 

 representatives of other breeds. For example, rustling 

 qualities and ability to fatten on grass are supposed to 

 be pre-eminent Hereford characteristics; quality, milk 

 production and adaptability, Shorthorn characteristics; 

 and wonderful hardiness, a Galloway characteristic; yet 

 records of our fairs and ranges can nearly always show 

 where the breed in question has been excelled by a few 

 individuals of other breeds in the points where supremacy 

 was claimed. Hence the young breeder can well afford 

 to take the stock that suits his purpose where he is located, 

 regardless of breed, keeping always in mind the market 

 for his young animals. 



Race horse breeders have a maxim 

 The Purebred that "What is bred in the bone will 

 Animal come out in the flesh." This applies in 



a striking way to cattle, for "cat- 

 hammed, fish-backed" dams and sires produce "cat- 

 hammed, fish-backed" calves just as surely as one roll- 

 ing tumbleweed will infect a field. Conversely, broad- 

 backed, meaty cattle will as certainly 'produce broad- 



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