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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 9 
BEEF BULL IN A DAIRY HERD. 
AN AMATEUR’S BREEDING EXPERIMENT. 
How to Secure Good Milking Heifers. 
This is offered as a fog bell or solemn 
warning against the experiment of build¬ 
ing up a dairy herd with a beef bull. It 
may help some young dairyman to keep 
in the dairy channel, instead of ground¬ 
ing on the shoals of tallow. In the Fall 
of 1890, when our scrub Jersey bull 
showed depravity, and was a good piece 
of beef, we traded him off for a young 
Holstein, because we could trade in this 
way to the best advantage. Not having 
room at that time for any stock but 
milch cows, valuable breeding qualities 
did not enter into the calculations. This 
young Holstein attracted us differently 
from his predecessors. He was a sturdy 
chunk of a fellow, with promise of large 
size. He was docile and hearty. He was 
pure-blooded, but not registered. The 
fact of owning our first pure-blooded 
bull gave importance to our herd. It 
set us up. Coincidently, increased pro¬ 
duction of fodder opened the way for 
raising some heifer calves. 
During 1891, his get began to appear, 
and they all had his color and marking, 
whether their dams were Jersey, red 
and white, or ring-streaked and speckled. 
It would have baffled Jacob himself, with 
all his ingenuity, to produce anything 
but black-and-whites from this bull. We, 
being only skin deep in breeding, took 
these black-and-white hides as evidence 
of the bull's prepotency, as they were, to 
a certain extent. It is to be expected 
that the last seven years of breeding 
have resulted in some knowledge besides 
15 grade Holstein heifers. My experience 
is only the old experience over again, 
which we learn in no other way so well 
as by going through the expensive prac¬ 
tice ourselves. This bull proved to be 
an excellent beef animal, going above 
the ton mark. His calves were fine veals. 
The matured heifers are sturdy speci¬ 
mens, but too coarse-boned for dairy 
cows ; their milk is generally a deteriora¬ 
tion in quality from that of their 
dams without a corresponding gain in 
quality, although, being bred from our 
best cows, as a whole, they average bet¬ 
ter than the same number we could have 
bought, and the enterprise has been 
fairly successful commercially. I am 
confident, from past experience, that 
these 15 heifers are much superior to the 
same number we could have got from 
any scrub Jersey bull, or scrub bull with 
any other breed predominating, even if 
he were of dairy type. Not a single 
heifer in the lot. and they are the 100 per 
cent of all we saved, is a failure, but is 
a marketable and fairly profitable cow. 
The per cent of failures in breeding is 
generally much higher than this. 
The first heifer we saved, Black Tail, 
has proved to be the best of the lot. 
Her dam was a nearly full-blood Jer¬ 
sey. with a record of 5,904 pounds of rich 
milk in a year, produced by persistent 
rather than deep milking. The dam 
was of highly nervous organization, and 
intelligent. Black Tail has her sire's 
color, but otherwise, strongly partakes 
of the characteristic dairy qualities of 
the dam. We have never been able to 
get another heifer calf from the dam, 
that comparison might indicate the pre¬ 
potency of the dam. The quality of 
Black Tail’s milk is but little below that 
of her dam. Her six-year-old milk rec¬ 
ord is 7,238 pounds, going up to 38 
pounds in one day. Her weight is under 
900 pounds. She is a big feeder, eating 
an extra-sized mess of her own. and all 
the refuse from the mangers of her 
neighbors. Both she and her dam are 
easy milkers. 
White Tail, the same age as Black 
Tail, is out of an inferior Jersey grade 
of good milk quality, but the grandam 
was a delicate, fine-boned J ersey of high 
quality and quantity. The grandam 
was bred to a scrub Jersey bull. White 
Tail also looks like her sire, and in spite 
of all the Jersey blood and fineness back 
on the dam's side, is rather coarse, 
and the quality of her milk below that 
of her ancestors. Her dam gave, this 
year, 4,015 pounds. White Tail. 5,875 
pounds. The grandam would, prob¬ 
ably, have given 7,000 pounds. White 
Tail is a somewhat hard milker. Her 
dam and grandam very easy milkers. 
The next heifer is Tag Tail, dropped 
in September, 1892. Her dam was a fine¬ 
boned red and white native cow. so- 
called. Tag is coarse and rawboned. 
Her milk is inferior. She is a hard milker; 
her dam was an easy milker. July 25, 
1893, was dropped Hail Columbia, called 
Lumbo for short. Half Holstein dam, 
native mixed stock farther back. Dam's 
disposition surly, Dumbo's kind, like her 
sire’s. Good quality and fair quantity of 
milk about like her dam’s. We sold her, 
and she is giving good satisfaction. 
In 1894, we raised three more of these 
heifers. First, Spot, out of a red and 
white cow. The dam was one of our 
best general utility cows. Large, virile, 
and a sure milker from year to year. 
Spot is scrawny and a light milker. In 
this one and Tag (No. 3) the dam, al¬ 
though a good individual, had the least 
good breeding, as far as we can tell, and 
the result in each case has been unsatis¬ 
factory. Do not generalize from these 
two facts, but preserve them for future 
classification, as you gradually collect 
facts Darwin fashion. After Spot came 
Amy, out of Milly, a red Short-horn 
with a 6,263-pound record. We sold Amy 
last Summer after her second calf, giv¬ 
ing 38 pounds of milk in a day, on pas¬ 
ture, oat and pea ensilage, and no grain. 
She, like Black Tail, filled the dairy-eye. 
The third of the '94 heifers was Smut. 
She was out of a nearly pure-blood, rich¬ 
milking Jersey. She has been rather 
ordinary so far, but promises late devel¬ 
opment into a good cow. The dam’s 
record is 6,850 pounds last year, Smut’s, 
4,586. The dam is ugly in disposition, 
and a hard milker; Smut is kind, and 
an easy milker. The dam is fine-boned ; 
Smut is coarse. Here we have a chance 
for comparison, for Henrietta, sister to 
Smut on both sides, was dropped July 
30, 1895, and is a fine-boned, fine-skinned 
animal. Although not ugly in disposi¬ 
tion like her dam—a possible result of 
abuse—she is full of nerve. She dropped 
her first calf March 15, 1897, 4% months 
before she was two years old. She was 
frolicking in the yard the next day. Al¬ 
though apparently stunted at the time, 
she has never lost a meal, and is grow¬ 
ing rapidly into a handsome dairy cow. 
Her coat is fine and silky ; Smut’s is 
coarse. Henrietta has not made a year’s 
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CAUTION NOTICE 
From the TRUE DAIRY SUPPLY COM¬ 
PANY, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Our customers and the public at large 
are hereby warned against a fraudulent 
scheme which we have discovered, has 
been carried on at 335 Broadway, New 
York City, bjr one M. J. Briggs, under 
the name of the “ True Dairy Supply 
Co., M. J. Briggs, Manager/’ 
PREVIOUS TO LAST YEAR 
we had some business dealings with this 
party, but on further acquaintance his 
manner of doing business was so ob¬ 
noxious to us that we declined having 
anything further to do with him. 
He left here in November, 1896, and 
went to New York and started in to do 
business under the name of the “ City 
Consumers’ Dairy Supply Co.,” but as 
there was nothing behind this concern, 
however, he was not successful in ob¬ 
taining credit under this name, and he 
thereupon boldly assumed to be repre¬ 
senting us in the capacity of a “ Branch 
Office,” and attempted to victimize the 
public through the unauthorized and 
fraudulent use of our name. As soon as 
we became aware of the fact we put the 
matter into the hands of the Post-Office 
Department, and they shut down on 
Briggs using the mails for his fraudulent 
scheme. We also secured an injunction 
from the Supreme Court, prohibiting his 
using our name in any way, shape or 
manner, and we have also brought an 
action against him for damages, which 
action is now pending. 
TRUE DAIRY SUPPLY COMPANY, 
Syracuse, N. Y —Adv. 
AMERICA’S HIGHEST 
DAIRYING AUTHORITY ON 
CREAM SEPARATORS. 
University of Wisconsin Experiment Station. 
Madison, Wis., Jan. 10,1898. 
11 The use of the Hand separators is a great, boon to the progressive dairy 
farmer who is making the most out of hismilk by manufacturing it at home. 
The amount of fat which many dairymen lose in the skim-milk is surpris¬ 
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