836 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



produced in fourteen days 420.8 Ibs. milk, testing 3.9 per cent butter-fat. 

 This in her two-year-old form with first calf. 



Superintendent May of Glenside says : " These tests were made with- 

 out any special preparation, the cows receiving 1 the usual care and feea 

 given the entire herd. We are now weighing- the product and testing every 

 cow in the herd for an entire year, so that we shall soon have some twelve 

 months' records to present." 



John Armstrong of Kingsbury Co., S. D., reports that in 1898 his sixteen 

 grade Short-horn cows averaged 6,000 Ibs. of milk, from which was made 

 an average of 301 Ibs. 5 oz. of butter. Counting stock sold and pork pro- 

 duced on skim-milk the net income per cow was $62.50. For 1899 the same 

 number of cows produced 101,471 Ibs. miik, which yielded 5,077 Ibs. of but- 

 ter, an average of 6,342 Ibs. of milk and 317 Ibs. 5 oz. of butter per cow. He 

 figures that these cows made him during the twelve months $76.47 net. 



C. M. Clark of Walworth Co., Wis., reports that during the month of 

 December, 1898, his thirteen Short-horn cows and eight two and three-year- 

 old heifers produced 14,218 Ibs. of mi]k; making an average of 33^ Ibs. but- 

 ter per head for the month, which, for a winter production, indicates prof- 

 itable dairy capacity. The best of the bull calves raised by such cows are 

 sold at good prices for breeding purposes. The poorer ones are steered, 

 and Mr. Clark reports that his last lot of bullocks averaged 1,200 Ibs. at 

 about twenty- four months old, and are worth six cents per pound. Mr. 

 Clark's cattle descend mainly from the Bates tribes, although he has re- 

 cently been using a Scotch-topped Rose of Sharon bull. 



Polled Durhams. The recent establishment 

 in the West of the type of cattle known as 

 "Polled Durhams" is a matter of interest to all 

 breeders of Short-horns. There are two varie- 

 ties of Polled Durhams one of pure Short-horn 

 descent and the other tracing to the native 

 "muley" cows of the country crossed origi- 

 nally with registered Short-horn bulls. The 

 pure-bred Short-horns that have had the polled 

 characteristic sufficiently established to admit 

 them to the Polled Durham Herd Book are 

 classed as " double-standard" cattle, being eli- 

 gible to both the Short-horn and Polled Dur- 

 ham registries. A large proportion of these 



