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^ires, and that they make more m oney out of them and raise their calves 

 than they can out of the other dairy type milkers. 



A. That of course is rather a hard question to answer, because it 

 depends upon the means and inclinations very largely. If a man is a 

 general farmer and wants to rais e steers too, I am not sure but that the 

 general purpose cattle are the best thing he perhaps can have. All are ex- 

 cellent milkers among Short Horns. The dairy cattle of England are Short 

 -Horns almost entirely. Very few cattle that are anything else pro- 

 duce milk in England. They prefer to buy milking Short Horns for their 

 "dairy. They can get more for the cows when they sell them. 



Mr. Gurler: Are not the Short Horns in England better than ours? 



A. Yes, sir, very good milkers indeed. I cannot give you any figures 

 now, but at the Agricultural College in Sweden they had thirty Short 

 Horns that were milking an average of 250 pounds of butter fat a year. 

 That was very good for milking S hort Horns and for beef purposes too. 



Mr. Grout: You take the S hort Horns of England they are a better 

 class of cattle than the Short Horns here. 



A. The cattle of England on the whole are much betetr than they 

 are here. A good many Short Ho rns in this country are not grade Short 

 Horns, but are simply scrubs. When it comes to the beef Short Horns 

 they are just as good as they are here. Nearly all the Short Horns here 

 are beef. In England two-thirds are milking Short Horns. 



Q. Do you know what the milking qualities of the Short Horns are 

 developed as in England, does it affect the beef qualities. 



A. Yes, sir, to some extent. You cannot get a Short Horn dairy 

 cow and a Short Horn beef cow in the same animal. A few years ago in 

 the University, we had a Short Horn cow that was a very excellent beef 

 animal, and at the same time she was nearly as good as a butter producer 

 as we haye had there among the dairy breed, and she Avas a typical beef 

 animal. When she gave a heavy flow of milk she run down, but when she 

 dried up she fleshed. 



Mr. Stewart: What kind of breed of steers? You don't find any of 

 our men willing to tell that; they don't like to tell that. In regard to the 



