I06 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Now we sometimes hear a man say ''I have got Short 

 Horns." That is rather an ambiguous term, what type of Short 

 Horns has he? You have got the beef type or the dairy type. 

 This is the beef type and the JDeef type is wrong if you are in the 

 dairy business, because you see the same rule holds good. The 

 animal's body is virtually a parallelogram. The object of this 

 animal is to put the most meat for it sells for the highest price, 

 and that is the back and hind quarters, and the more room there 

 is and the more meat that goes there, the more value the animal 

 is. 



Now a very good illustration of this fact was developed up 

 here at Ames, Iowa. They took a Jersey steer and a Her ford 

 steer. One represented the dairy type, the other represented the 

 beef type. They fed those two animals about the same amount of 

 feed for a period of nine months. At the end of that time they 

 took them to market and when they came to market them they 

 found the Jersey brought two and one-eighth dollars below the 

 market price and the Herford ten cents above the market, making 

 a difference of over $2.22 between the two animals. The net 

 weight of the Hereford was 67^ per cent beef and the Jersey 57 

 per cent. In the Jersey there w^as two times as much tallow. 

 These animals had gained virtually the same amount on the same 

 amount of food and from the casual observer you would have said 

 one produced just as much meat as the other, but when they came 

 to dress these cattle they found the difference to be greater than 

 they had supposed on account of the Jersey having produced so 

 much more tallow. The tallow was w^orth 4 cents a pound and 

 he had very little of the choice cuts ; hardly enough beef to cover 

 his back decently. This was worth 18 cents a pound, and there was 

 not much of it. The market returns was 49 per cent greater for 

 the Hereford than for the Jersey. I venture to say that if you 

 Avould apply the same rules and take a beef type and a dairy type 

 you would find that the difference would be just as great in favor 

 of the dairy type in the dairy test. This teaches us that we ought 

 to try and keep the right kind of cow^s, that is, a man don't 

 necessarily have to be a lover of one kind of animals, one breed 



