L82 THE WORLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



The bone is fine, the skin mellow, the hair soft and silky, and 

 the grain of the meat is fine and high in quality. Little atten- 

 tion has been devoted to the milking qualities of Galloway 

 <mw B a but they give enough milk to raise a good calf. The milk 

 i-< regarded as ranking high in butter-fat, and. having good 

 quality. The Galloways have commanded especial attention 

 because of their prepotency and the uniformity of the offspring 

 when the bulls are used for grading up or for crossing. 



This breed will probably never be very popular in the 

 United States except in the north-west, where climatic con- 

 ditions are severe and the range grasses are often scant. In 

 that section, however, the bulls could be used advantageously 

 for grading up native stock. 



DUAL-PURPOSE BREEDS 



The dual-purpose cattle have been bred to produce females 

 which would yield a good quantity of milk and produce off- 

 spring which would be desirable for beef. As the type of 

 animal necessary for the production of large yields of milk is 

 entirely different from that of the beef animals, it has been 

 impossible to produce a breed which would combine these 

 functions and be of superior merit for both purposes. The 

 dual-purpose animal may, however, be a desirable milker and 

 at the same time produce calves which make good, though not 

 superior, beef animals. As there has been a constant tendency 

 for some breeders to incline more to the dairy type of animals, 

 while others prefer to develop the beef tendencies, there has 

 been, and probably always will be, a wide variation in the type 

 of dual-purpose animals. They are not so uniform in confor- 

 mation as either the strictly beef or dairy breeds. Most breeder! 

 prefer to use cows which approach the dairy type nearer than 

 the beef type and to use a bull of the beef type that had a 

 dam with a good milk record. The offspring of such cattle 

 necessarily cannot be of as uniform type as the breeds which 

 have but one function to perform. 



The dual-purpose cattle are popular with the small farmer, 

 who keeps but a few cattle, and must depend upon them to 

 produce all the milk and butter needed for the family, and at 



