THE CALL OF THE LAND 



class beef bulls. A battle of breeds is going 

 on. One man thinks there is no beef ox like 

 the Aberdeen- Angus ; another argues for the 

 Hereford; while not a few still maintain 

 that on the whole the Shorthorn is the best 

 beef maker. All three of these noble types, 

 as well as a number of others just as worthy 

 to be mentioned with them, are advertised, 

 their merits made known, and specimens 

 purchased in great numbers far out on the 

 frontier, the result being a vast increase in 

 the production of beef over what would oc- 

 cur if the scrub stock of earlier years still 

 fed on our pastures. 



There is equal progress in breeding 

 methods. Hand breeding is more and more 

 practiced. The difficulty of this in great 

 herds is, of course, immense, but ways will 

 be invented to make it possible and greatly 

 profitable as well, through vast saving in 

 place of the present wholesale waste of ani- 

 mal vitality at breeding time. 



As some beef farmers are eking out their 

 profits by producing cream, so many dairy 

 people are learning how they may advan- 



