1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
779 
WHAT ART. “NATIVE” CATTLE? 
Would you inform me if there is a breed 
of cattle by the name of “native" cattle, the 
same as Holstein, Jersey, etc., and also ex¬ 
plain the word “native” in so far as it is 
used as a name for beef? Another man and 
myself have an argument on this question; 
lie claims there is a particular breed of cattle 
called “native," and I claim there is not. 
Pennsylvania. w. ir. h. 
Perhaps at the beginning it may be well 
to seek definitions for a few of the terms 
commonly used in stock-breeding. A 
purebred animal is one bred within cer¬ 
tain blood lines, generally for long per¬ 
iods without admixture of diverse strains 
of blood. A purebred animal has usually, 
however, no very special value unless ac¬ 
companied by a certificate of registry. 
The possession of this allows the pedi¬ 
gree to be traced. A pedigree may be 
defined as a recorded history of ancestry, 
and this history of ancestry may be com¬ 
paratively long or quite short. The long¬ 
est recorded pedigrees among cattle are 
cf Short-horns, most approved individ¬ 
uals of which can be traced without a 
break to certain foundation animals bred 
in the north of England between 1710 
and 1780. Both Holstein and Jerseys are 
much older breeds than the Short-horns, 
but their pedigrees are much briefer, be¬ 
cause in their case, it is only compara¬ 
tively recently that any systematic record¬ 
keeping has ever been done. Both Hol- 
steins and Jerseys have very strongly 
marked and distinct breed characters, 
because geographical environment pre¬ 
vented the admixture of other blood 
even before pedigrees began to be cher¬ 
ished for their own sake. The writer has 
seen old dairy farms run according to 
ancient methods where a cow was seldom 
purchased, but always raised from the 
stock of the farm, and where a race of 
common characters was being developed 
—in other words, a one-farm breed was 
being formed. It must not be forgotten 
that the pedigree—the recorded history 
of ancestry—is what gives the special 
selling value to the purebred animal. If 
the registry has lapsed or been lost, then 
their value becomes only that of an equal¬ 
ly good grade. 
A “grade” is an animal with a prepon- 
derancy of the blood of some breed, so 
much so that the special breed characters 
may readily be recognized. If the ani¬ 
mal is nearly purebred, i. e., has several 
successive crosses of the breed, it is 
known as a “high-grade,” although con¬ 
trary to popular impression, no amount 
of crossing can ever make an animal eli¬ 
gible to registry in the standard herd- 
books. Usually, however, an animal that 
has four crosses—that is to say, is fifteen- 
sixteenths purebred, will have most of the 
distinctive qualities and excellencies of 
the purebred, lacking only perhaps pre¬ 
potency, i. e., the ability to transmit char¬ 
acters to* descendants. The great mass of 
cows of the future may be high grades or 
even purebred, but only a very small per¬ 
centage of them will be registered. For 
example, the mere clerical labor involved 
in recording and printing the herd-books 
of the 1,700,000 milch cows in New York 
State would be an almost impossible task. 
“Native” is the name given to animals | 
of mixed or unknown breeding which do l 
not clearly correspond to any breed type, 
but merely represent promiscuous cross¬ 
ing of nondescript sires and dams. Un¬ 
til recently much of the dairy stock of the 
East has been on this character, but the 
use of the purebred or high-grade bull 
has become so general that most animals 
which one sees nowadays can clearly be 
referred to some breed. Still, we occa¬ 
sionally see a cow, and many times she 
is a good one, that will defy any guesses 
as to her family tree. Many breeds were 
represented in the importations that ac¬ 
companied the first settlers. In New 
York and Pennsylvania and thence west 
into Ohio and Kentucky, the old Short¬ 
horn is the dominant racial stock, al¬ 
though in the milk-shipping districts the 
Holstein seems destined to turn every¬ 
thing black and white. “Native” and 
“mongrel” are perhaps synonymous terms, 
but the word “scrub” ought to be re¬ 
served for the worthless cow, whether 
she be a real native or an animal with a 
name like a foreign potentate and a 
pedigree that rivals those of the First 
Families of Virginia. The name “native” 
ought not necessarily be a term of re¬ 
proach. It is true that they represent 
nondescript and entirely careless breed¬ 
ing, yet fortunately there are many excel¬ 
lent animals among them. 
It is perhaps rather strange that all our 
prominent breeds of cattle are of Euro 
pean rather than American origin, yet 
under American conditions, independent 
of any selection by breeders, there is all 
the while going on a kind of natural 
selection, making them better adapted to 
their environment. The Jersey, after a 
number of generations in this country, 
certainly becomes larger and more 
rugged, while at the same time she loses 
something of the beauty and fawnlike 
grace of the Island*cow. There are some 
sections where the farmers are uncon¬ 
sciously developing what may fairly be 
called an “American” type of Jersey 
With most of our breeds, it is, as a rule, 
doubtful if there is longer any good rea¬ 
son for further importations. There is 
every reason to believe that in America 
are as good representatives of Jerseys, 
Holsteins and Short-horns as anywhere 
in the world, and they ought to be better 
adapted to our conditions of food and 
climate than if they had just crossed the 
water. Yet the breeder business has still 
a strong tincture of fad, and “imported” 
is still a word to conjure by with many 
men. jared van wagenen, jr. 
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