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best quality. This breed is reported to produce a large quantity 

 of milk, and make a large amount of beef, which may not always 

 be of the best quality, but as an animal for cash profit this breed 

 gives better promise than any of the smaller breeds. 



The Shorthorns have long been noted for their large size, 

 handsome, square forms and good quality of beef. Some families 

 are good milking stock, while others are very deficient in 

 milking qualities, not giving enough to raise a good calf. If the 

 individual farmer is so situated that beef producing can be made 

 profitable, this is the breed that should receive his careful atten- 

 tion. 



The Guernseys are not very numerous in this vicinity, and 

 from what I have seen they are but little better than the Jersey. 

 They are reported to give high color to the butter made from 

 their milk. A cross of this breed with one deficient in these 

 good qualities, would have a tendency to improve the stock of 

 both. 



Then why not some good farmer who has the means, start 

 out and produce new and better breed of animals, one that is 

 better than any that we have imported, with a long string of 

 names and numbers too numerous to remember. It has long been 

 known that animals that have been crossed with like animals, to 

 produce similar form and color, produce inferior constitutions. 

 They are often deficient in breeding qualities, and will not com- 

 pare with grades or native stock for every day business. If a 

 long continued cross of good animals from grades of the different 

 breeds we now have, could be made, we could expect something 

 that would be superior for practical business to any imported 

 Thoroughbred. 



We want an animal that is truly American, like the young 

 farmer or Yankee school teacher, who are organized from all the 

 nationalities that settled on the shores of America at an early date, 

 We want animals that are adapted to our climate and feel that 

 we can depend upon to do well on good feed. We are often dis- 

 appointed with the results of high priced Thoroughbred animals; 

 let us have something better. 



The efforts of the members of this Society to collect togeth- 

 er or otherwise produce a herd of neat cattle, is worthy of the 



