832 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



It must be admitted that the results of this year's work were a 

 great surprise, for while it was thought that the large and strong 

 Short-horn grades representing the dual-purpose type, would re- 

 turn a fair profit on the feed consumed, it was not even surmised 

 that they would equal their much more finely organized and 

 smaller sisters the Jersey and Guernsey grades in cheapness 

 of butter production. This yearly record is given as a preliminary 

 work, and is not to be considered as at all conclusive and yet 

 when five such Short-horn grade cows as are here reported can 

 be picked up in a single day, as was the case with these, it would 

 seem as if that class of cows must have a great deal of dairy value. 



This Wisconsin test, which is developing 

 many surprises for those who have so strenu- 

 ously denied the existence of a profitable dual- 

 purpose cow is still in progress, and we have it 

 on the best authority that the data which will 

 be forthcoming in the report of the second 

 year's experiment will be even more interest- 

 ing to the breeders of Short-horns than that 

 from which we have quoted above. 



Official records in Iowa. The proofs being 

 supplied at the Wisconsin Station are well sup- 

 plemented by late figures from the Iowa Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Ames, where 

 special attention is also being given to the sub- 

 ject of the dairy capacity of Short-horn cows. 

 Director C. F. Curtiss has furnished us with 

 photographs of the two cows College Moore and 

 College Belle 2d (illustrated in this volume), 

 both descending in the maternal line from imp. 

 Young Mary. College Belle 2d has produced 

 7,554 Ibs. of milk in ten months, with an aver- 

 age of 4.3 per cent fat, from which was pro- 



