L903 
PiRE POLLED HOLSTEINS WANTED? 
Successful efforts have been made to pro¬ 
duce strains or families of Jersey, Short¬ 
horn and Hereford cattle without horns. 
As a rule such cattle bring higher prices 
than horned stock. Are there any families 
of polled Holstein cattle? Would such 
animals be worth more than those simi¬ 
larly bred with horns? 
The suggestion of building up a breed 
of polled Holstein cattle, is an entirely 
new proposition. The large proportion 
of practical dairymen th'at 1 have met 
from time to time, are strong advocates 
of dishorning, and if they are right, 
and horns are a useless ornament. It 
would be much better to breed them 
without horns rather than to deform 
them by dishorning after they arrive at 
maturity. On the other hand, good cows 
always seem incomplete to me if de¬ 
prived of horns, and I would much pre¬ 
fer to have them on. 
ir. B. VAN Cr-EVE. 
Dellhurst Farm, Mentor, O. 
At the present time I do not think 
a Holstein would bring one dollar more 
for being a polled animal. The breeders 
as a rule are looking for l^rge amounts 
of butter fat with a fine conformation. 
A few of the breeders are looking for 
the show animal; these two kinds bring 
the extreme high prices. As I under¬ 
stand it, a large number of plain, every¬ 
day dairymen are buying and dishorn¬ 
ing, as it only costs 25 cents to dishorn 
when done in any number by men mak¬ 
ing it a part of their business. I hardly 
think a polled cow and a cow with horns 
of the same conformation, same general 
milk flow, would bring any more at an 
ordinary sale. Of course if a fad shouid 
be started the polied would be admired. 
I am inclined to think that there are not 
as many dishorned in ordinary dairies 
as about 10 years ago. I find in my herd 
of 125 very little trouble with horns. 
W. s. CARPENTER. 
Menominee, Mich. 
I have been breeding the Holstein 
cattie for the past 20 years, and while 
I have had no experience with poiied 
cattle I do not think there is any ques¬ 
tion but what a breed of this kind 
would be preferable to a breed of 
horned cattle. If a breed of polled Hol¬ 
stein cattle could be established without 
lo'sing any of the excellent dairy 
qualities that the present breed of Hol- 
steins have I think it would be a great 
work, and that the cattle would meet 
with a very ready sale at satisfactory 
prices. o. p. chapman. 
Wellington, 0. 
BREEDING THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 
COW. 
What should be the aim of Holstein- 
Friesian breeders in building up their 
herds? You are no doubt aware that in 
the Department of Advanced Registry of 
the Holstein-Friesian Aiss;OCiation of 
America we have terms for distinguish¬ 
ing the different types of animals, known 
as the milk form, the milk and beef 
form, the beef and milk form, and the 
beef form. My personal preference in 
(he matter of selection is for animals 
that conform to the milk and beef form. 
In cows of this form we find cows whose 
bodies frdJm a side view assume the 
outlines of a* parallelogram. Viewed 
from the front, they retain to a certain 
degree the lateral wedge shape, but will 
be found with better spring of rib, a lit¬ 
tle fuller, perhaps, in the chest and crops 
and an animal possessing all the appear¬ 
ances of refinement and dairy tempera¬ 
ment that are found in auimals of the 
mil|k form, but still with an appearances 
and bearing that at once impresses us 
with a stnonger constitutional vigor, en¬ 
durance and longevity than is manifest 
with animals of the milk form. By vir¬ 
tue of the characteristics found in the 
milk and beef form we have in the Hol¬ 
stein-Friesian a good dairy animal, and 
also a structural form to lay on meat. 
THE RURAL N 
It is my opinion that animals of this 
type are more prevalent among the 
greatest producers of the breed. I be¬ 
lieve that breeders can retain and per¬ 
petuate this type, and still increase the 
dairy quality of the Holstein-Frfesian 
cow. and I do not believe it is necessary 
to depart from this type to secure the 
very best dairy producer. This being 
true, and breeding for the milk and beef 
form, we naturally have a fair beef as 
well as a superior dairy form. Observa¬ 
tions have led me to believe that after all 
there is more In dairy temperament and 
function than there is in form, for it is 
seldom, in the examination of choice 
representatives of the breed, we find ani¬ 
mals of exactly the same form. There 
may be a uniformity, but still in great 
cows we will notice nearly as many 
types represented. 
The Holstein-Friesians in their na¬ 
tive home may be considered a general- 
purpose animal, and they are still han¬ 
dled to that end, namely, milk, veal and 
beef. In this country, however, I think 
breeders have somewhat departed from 
this line, and are really considering the 
element of beef a secondary matter, 
chough it cannot be said that animals of 
this breed do not make profitable feed¬ 
ers. After their days in the dairy are 
passed it iis better to realize a fair mar¬ 
gin of profit upon a good beef carcass 
than it would be were that characteristic 
not present. I recently sold from my 
herd a purebred cow, that has been one 
of the greatest dairy producers I have 
ever owned, having produced in a single 
year over 20,000 pounds of milk and 700 
pounds butter fat, and with an official 
butter record for one week of 22.1 
pounds. This cow conformed to the 
milk and beef form, and upon selling 
her at 15 years old she weighed 1,605 
pounds and brought a nice little sum for 
beef. I only mention this to show that 
such animals may be used for both pur¬ 
poses to a good profit. It is my opinion 
that it should be the aim of breeders to 
perpetuate the milk and beef form, with 
due regard to both temperament and 
form, and such being the case I think it 
possible istill to increase the yield with¬ 
out damage to the beef tendency. 
I cannot urge the importance of breed¬ 
ing for beef, only in an incidental way, 
as I should certainly consider this a 
secondary matter. It must not be in¬ 
ferred from the terms in use by the Hol¬ 
stein-Friesian Association in distin¬ 
guishing animalis of the different types 
that we do not find animals of marked 
superiority for dairy purposes, in the 
beef form as well as in the milk form, 
two types directly opposite each other 
so far as structural form is concerned. 
For a general-purpose animal the beef 
or even the beef and milk form, would 
in my opinion be the more profitable 
from the beef-producing standpoint; 
still I should consider it a great mistake 
for our breeders to follow this line of 
breeding, for I believe there is a ten¬ 
dency of less persistence, and I believe 
that the milk and beef form conforms 
to the needs of the average dairy farmer. 
Rosendale, Wis. w. .t. oii.t.ett. 
Farrowing Sows.— In regard to Mr. 
Morse’s trouble with his sows at farrowing 
time, wiil say when I first started in the 
hog business I had three to farrow the 
same time. I did about as Mr. Morse dfd; 
went to se.e them at all times of day or 
night. I did not have very good luck with 
them. I made a resolution then if they 
could not take care of their young I would 
get in some other business, so next time 
I cleaned their pens, fed them at regular 
times, paid no more attention to them 
otherwise, and have had the best of good 
luck since. The sow Mr. Morse spoke of 
in the next pen thought he was hurting 
the pigs. That started the other one going 
A hog has more instinct than any other 
animal. I have watched sows farrow; if 
a pig would go around on the back she 
would give two or three grunts; the pig 
would walk right around to place and take 
a teat. If you want good luck with your 
pigs leave them alone the first week. I 
keep all my sows running together in warm 
weather; in cold weather in pens side by 
side. J. D. DATES. 
EW-YORKER. 
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