easy to believe that his live stock farming operations will scarce- 

 ly be profitable or encouraging. 



The Milking Shorthorn is clearly entitled to play a very im- 

 portant part in rejuvenating successful farming practices in the 

 New England States. She will produce meat and milk in abun- 

 dance. She will yield calves that will establish a competitive 

 market for either veal or baby beef in as much as this product 

 will satisfy the demands of the local butcher for freshly killed 

 beef possessing flavor and texture, while the cow herself will not 

 require the labor expenditure that must follow any operation 

 where dairying is exclusively followed. 



The new era is going to find the Eastern stockman, especially 

 the tenant farmer who operates a small farm, engaged in the 

 growing of a few sheep, a few pigs and a few cattle, the produc- 

 tion of which will have a tendency to equalize his labor load and 

 make it possible for him to introduce a system of crop rotation 

 that will provide practically all of the feed required to supply 

 their needs, enable him to make the most of his meadows and 

 pastures and thus make him more independent of the Western 

 crop grower and the Eastern distributor of grains and hay. 



Milking Shorthorns are bound to predominate in any organ- 

 ized effort of this kind and the young breeder who early chooses 

 this system of agricultural operation will clearly outrank, in the 

 years to come, his neighbor who persists in fiddling along with 

 mongrel cows possessed only with the dairy inclinations, and but- 

 ter fat illusions. 



This breed of cattle was developed in England by Bates, 

 Booth and Cruickshank to serve as a rent paying agency and what 

 they did and are continuing to perform for the British tenant 

 farmer, they are bound to accomplish for the American farmer 

 who is face to face with problems very similar to those encount- 

 ered by the old country farmer. 



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