THE SHORTHORN 



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The Shorthorn from the dairy point of view ranks high. In 

 England a great percentage of the dairy herds are of Shorthorn 

 blood. As one crosses the midland and southern counties he 

 may see large numbers of Shorthorns with udders indicating great 

 milking capacity. Much of the milk shipped into London comes 

 from Shorthorn herds. The author visited one farm in Berkshire 

 where some five hundred cows of this breed were milked daily 

 and the product shipped to London. In the United States many 

 farmers, notably in the Central West, rely upon Shorthorn cows 

 for their milk supply. As has been already indicated, as a result of 

 hereditary transmission and the early breeding of Bates and others, 

 the Shorthorn produces an abundance of milk. No beef breed equals 

 it. Shorthorns generally may be in a measure grouped into two 

 classes — the beefy type and the general-purpose sort. As a rule, it 

 is true, the latter class will not fatten as easily and does not present 

 the beef conformation in as high a degree as does the former. 

 Even then the beefy class of Shorthorn surpasses the Hereford, 

 Aberdeen-Angus, and Galloway in furnishing milk for its offspring. 



Official public-dairy tests of Shorthorn cows have been under- 

 taken on three occasions in the United States- — in 1893 at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1901 at the Pan- 

 American Exposition at Buffalo, and in 1904 at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. These were each under official 

 supervision of dairy scientists of note and superintendents repre- 

 senting the different breeds. At the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, Shorthorns competed against herds of Jerseys and Guernseys. 

 In the cheese-making test of fourteen days the Shorthorn ranked 

 third, producing 12,186.9 pounds milk^ from which was made 

 1077.6 pounds cheese. The Shorthorn cow Nora stood second 

 to a Jersey, producing 60.56 pounds cheese at a net profit of 

 ;^6.27. In the butter-making test for ninety days, in which gain 

 in live weight was credited, the following results were secured : 



Breed 



Number 



OF Cov/S 



Milk 

 (pounds) 



Butter 

 (pounds) 



Gain Live 

 Weight 



Net Profit 



Jersey 

 Shorthorn . 

 Guernsey . 



25 

 23 

 25 



73.478-8 

 66,263.2 

 61,781.7 



4573-95 

 2890.86 



3360.43 



776 

 2826 



^1323.81 

 911-13 

 997-63 



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