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be domesticated, well-formed cross-breeds, calculated to 

 lay on flesh of a superior veined quality on moderate feed. 

 The system probably most feasible would be one of a 

 combination of yard and paddock (potrero) feeding ; to 

 maintain which a succession of forage crops would have 

 to be grown. It is noticeable that the cattle of the 

 country, even when on the best pastures, do not vein the 

 meat with fat, and the flesh, by consequence, is wanting 

 in flavour, richness, and delicacy, and they are compa- 

 ratively unprofitable feeding for beef. 



The unchecked development of young stock, the pro- 

 duce of crosses of shorthorned and Hereford bulls witli 

 selected native cows, when somewhat extra care is 

 taken to secure the even growth, is, as I have seen and 

 proved, highly satisfactory, especially so in the second 

 and more advanced crosses. Exceedingly neat, level, and 

 square animals are produced of fair size and ' good hair,' 

 manifesting really good fatting and beef-making qualities, 

 so much so that on the same feed they will make nearly 

 double the beef and fat that can be obtained from the 

 native breed ; as also excellent milking ones when this 

 object has been sought after. I have cows of this class 

 which give me in the height of their milk as much as 

 sixteen and eighteen quarts per day. 



The power of transmitting type and colour resident in 

 pure-bred (Herd Book) bulls is manifest in a high degree 

 in the crosses with the cows of the country. All the esta- 

 blished and accredited colours of the shorthorn, from pure 

 white through all the grades of roan to red, prevail in a 

 carefully managed shorthorn cross herd ; and I have 

 seen a herd, the only one that I know of in the country, 

 the produce of three Hereford bulls (of Mr. Nay lor 's stock) 

 and cows of this country, in which every animal got by 

 these bulls, from the first cross upwards, was ' true ' in 



