584 THE HOME, FARM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPAEDIA. 



in place of S88 ! Shall we say then that this may be the only class where 

 thoroughbreds would pay at high prices for ordinary use ? 



It is not because Canadian cattle if there be such a thing really are 

 native only that they are placed in this list. I contend, without any fear 

 of being unseated, that by a proper selection of this class of cows we ob- 

 tain a higher annual produce for our ordinary dairy purposes than from 

 any other in this record, and that they are best adapted to the present 

 system of management. As a natural result of general agricultural pro- 

 gress not special progress always this special class of cattle will gradu- 

 ally disappear, and unless we supplement with something else perbaps 

 the Holstein, the Guernsey, or may be a less beefy stamp, by careful selec- 

 tion, of the Shorthorn grade, our dairy interests will suffer. I claim for 

 what is called the Canadian cow, a better defined position, and a higher 

 status than has hitherto been accorded to her. " Pedigree" is well ; " blood " 

 is good ; but milk, at a dairy or creamery, is better than either of them. 



EXPERIENCE WITH SOME BREEDS OF CATTLE IN ONTARIO. 



It would not be difficult to sketch the conduct and peculiarities of dif- 

 ferent breeds of cattle as known in their own habitat, but, what would be 

 the use of such a presentation in comparison with the same thing in other 

 lands ? The value to us as Canadians is not so much what is realized in 

 Britain, but how they conduct themselves under different circumstances, 

 and particularly of Ontario. 



Taking this view as the correct one, 1 cannot do better than present 

 your Board with some brief notes on the experience of the Ontario Ex- 

 perimental Farm an experience now embracing seven years under one 

 man's management. 



The Canadian. I know of no class of cattle so well deserving a first 

 notice in these pages as the Canadian. There is a distinct type entitled 

 to this name. I do not mean those with a touch of Ayrshire, Devon, or 

 any other not even the Shorthorn grade but that moderate sized, milk- 

 ing, wirey, active stamp; well known to the average farmer. If this be 

 considered as somewhat indefinite, we shall be glad to point to specimens 

 here or elsewhere. 



I claim that the Canadian deserves more notice than has ever been 

 given to it public or specific giving a recognised position that cannot 

 be doubted. Have we on record anywhere such a description and history 

 of the Canadian cow as that, when the time comes, as come it will, when 

 the Herd Book editor will require materials with which to trace back to 



