92 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



REPRESENTING SHORT HORN BREED OF CATTLE. 



Mr. Fred L. Hatch, of Spring Grove, Illinois. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



When I was chosen to speak of this subject I was alarmed. The idea 

 of speaking of Short Horns to people at a Dairymen's Association Conven- 

 tion, when every other breed would be represented by dairymen, I hardly 

 knew what to think of it. I expected no other quality would be talked about 

 but the dairy qualities, but after hearing these gentlemen speak I see all 

 that our Jersey friend has represented was the general purpose cow. I 

 learn that Jersey cattle are only just models; a little thing that is made 

 to carry around. I want to ask you how many men that supply milk to the 

 factories in the State of Illinois or Wisconsin have any quantity of the 

 Jersey breeds in their herds. Who can afford to have it; how many have re- 

 tained it? I would not debate for a moment that the qualities of the Jer- 

 seys are for specialty, some particular trade in milk and nothing else. They 

 are grand, good little cattle. I owned them as much as 25 or 30 years ago 

 and have some to this day, but they never gave the milk that the Short 

 Horns did. 



They always out-tested the Short Horns. I had them test as high as 6 

 pc: cent; did our own testing; this is no average. We tested with the Bab- 

 cock test. The Short Horns tested 4 per cent, and as much again in milk. 

 They are just models. I have never looked for a little heifer but what I 

 thought there was a model for the Short Horns. The litle diminutive 

 thing — I could put on this stand. You would not want to breed her on your 

 farms; you could not afford to. It is grand that we have this breed to show 

 what the best of the breed can produce, but the great working people of this 

 state and other states have been men that have to do something else but 

 make milk alone. They sell cattle. 



