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three months’ grazing, and sent her to Christmas Fat Show ; she won second 
prize — people said she ought to have been first. I sold her by weight, and she 
weighed 138 stone of 8 lb., and the butcher said it was the best quality beef 
he had — better flesh than Angus or cross-bred steers and heifers. This cow 
calved on July 11, 1902, and was milked 525 days, and gave 1,204 gallons of 
milk. . . . My old stock bull, Beau Sabreur, is sire of heifers and cows 
that have won first prizes as dairy cows, and firsts in milking competitions, 
and also of prize steers and bulls.” 
In a recent communication, Mr. F. B. Punchard gives me, 
amongst others, the two following instances of the dual- 
purpose animal : — 
“ Moss Bose 2nd, a very handsome red pedigree cow, gave 720 gallons, at one 
calving had three calves (one a bull sold to Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Kelmscott, for 
three figures), and was then sold at the Christmas Fat Stock Show at Kendal 
for 19Z. 15s. Forever 83517, used in herd for three years, and then sold 
to Mr. Thomas Walker, Templand, Grange-over- Sands, who reports that he 
is doing very well, and weighs over 22 cwt. live weight. He is the sire of 
many beautiful milkers, and has won prizes himself at shows.” 
Pure-bred stock bred by Mr. John D. Maxted at Lower 
Garrington, Littlebourne, Kent, has been known to the writer 
for some years, and here winners at the local fat stock shows 
have been bred from good milkers. Of his first prize winner 
at the Ashford Fat Stock Show this month (December, 1908), 
his son, Mr. Jack Maxted, tells me “ her dam is a roan Short- 
horn cow, Beauty , she has been a good milker, having brought 
up five calves and then been milked between calving and 
calving. The sire of the winning heifer was a red Shorthorn 
bull of a good milking strain, one of J. T. Hobbs’ breeding.” 
An article entitled “ Manufacture of Meat,” in the Live 
Stock Journal of April 13, 1882, tells us that Mr. Stratton’s 
Smithfield Champion was grandson of a famous dairy cow. 
On applying to that gentleman we received a reply which 
would certainly be published in its entirety were it not that 
the most urgent considerations of space strictly limits us to the 
following quotations : — 
“ But the point you want to illustrate, I understand, is that ample 
production of milk can be combined with good grazing properties. I 
have had half a century’s experience of cattle breeding, have always been 
associated with a large dairy herd as well as with pedigree Shorthorns, and I 
have no hesitation whatever in asserting that the best of graziers may be 
bred from first-class dairy cattle. It has been so proved to demonstration by 
my father (who always kept a herd of good dairy Shorthorns) in the records 
of the Smithfield Club and the Birmingham Fat Stock Show ; and my own 
records at those shows in the seventies afford similar proof. But the question 
is whether the dairyman can venture to use pedigree bulls without impairing 
the milking properties of his herd. I have no hesitation in saying that he can, 
but of course discretion must be exercised, and careful selection — the 
injudicious use of a bull from a non-milking family would undoubtedly have a 
disastrous effect, but there are plenty of pure-bred Shorthorns from which 
bulls maybe selected that would improve the grazing properties of an ordinary 
dairy herd enormously without in the slightest degree injuring the milking 
capabilities.” 
