fertile districts around Lexington, Kentucky. In many cases, 

 the sadness of the affair was that many of the big "Double Deck- 

 ed" cows had disappeared entirely, and it became a search for 

 the Milking Shorthorn. It is not hard for us to convince the 

 Corn Belt farmer of the value of such cattle as represented by 

 the Milking Shorthorn of good type. The gravest problem is to 

 find the cattle he wants. Show him the Milking Shorthorn of 

 the correct type and he is in the market for both bulls and fe- 

 males. But the Corn Belt man is a good stockman when he sets 

 out to be one. He knows what the market demands. Big cows 

 without milking ancestry, he doesn't want. Neither does he de- 

 sire milk records without good cattle. 



From the raising of cattle for beef alone to those that will 

 produce both beef and milk is an easy change for the Corn Belt 

 man; and he wants Shorthorns, because, experience has taught 

 him that Shorthorns stand the test of time. He needs only to 

 turn to the experience of Great Britain, where over 90% of the 

 milk produced is from Milking Shorthorns. In parts of Iowa, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and other states of the 

 Middle West, in the Corn Belt and bordering on it, there have 

 already sprung up communities of breeders of Milking Short- 

 horns, where good cattle are being produced. In competition 

 with special dairy breeds of cattle, they are holding their own in 

 Cow Testing Associations, and are making money for their 

 owners in supplying milk to creameries, cheese factories, con- 

 densaries, and city distributors of whole milk. The calves help 

 supply Chicago with some of the best grass fat steers produced 

 in America. The question with these men is: "Where can we 

 get more cattle like these ?" 



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