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February 18, 
GOOD WORDS FOR THE SHORT-HORN. 
I notice in your issue of December 
17 last an article by Mr. Herring un¬ 
der the heading, “Dairy and Beef Com¬ 
bination Impossible.” I have no doubt 
that he is honest in his opinions, but he 
is laboring under very mistaken ideas. 
While I don’t contend that it is possible 
to establish a breed of cattle or a strain 
of Short-horns that will equal the but¬ 
ter record of the Jersey cow Jacoba Irene, 
and after their usefulness in the dairy is 
past, feed up to the standard of an In¬ 
ternational champion, I do contend that 
it is possible so to breed our Short¬ 
horns as to produce a cow that will pay 
a satisfactory profit in the dairy, and 
her produce, if fed for beef, will pay a 
handsome profit in the feed lot. There 
is a great number of purebred and grade 
Short-born cows that I know have made 
from 7,000 pounds to 10,000 pounds of 
milk in a season, and the steers bred 
from them would weigh from 1,000 to 
1,300 pounds at two years without heavy 
feed and I have sold quite a number of 
them at five and six cents per pound 
and thought they paid well, both as 
beef and milk producers. Mr. Herring 
says it is impossible to combine the two 
qualities in one animal. I have in mind 
one bull that we used; he was from 
a noted herd of milking Short-horns, 
and his daughters were universally heavy 
milkers. The steers from him were 
good feeders, and when fed for beef he 
himself was sold in the New York 
market for the highest price of any bull 
that was sold there that season, and 
was taken for export trade. Nancy 
Lee, that produced three daughters with 
records of over 9,000 pounds of milk 
and one daughter and one granddaughter 
with over 10,000 pounds of milk, made 
1,560 pounds of beef when fattened, and 
there are many more that have done as 
well or better. He says, “In the only 
extensive breed tests in which they were 
competitors, viz., the Columbian Expo¬ 
sition, they failed to make good,” and 
right there is where he falls down. The 
Short-horn breeders entered their cattle 
in that test with no idea that they could 
defeat the cattle that had been bred for 
over a century for dairy purposes only, 
but with the purpose in view of showing 
the public that the Short-horn cow when 
properly bred and fed, was a dairy cow 
of no mean capacity, and they certainly 
made good along those lines. I contend 
that taking everything into consideration 
they made the best showing of the three 
breeds contending. 
He says they have failed to breed on. 
In the 30-day butter test at the Colum¬ 
bian Exposition, Kitty Clay 4th, stood 
above all the Guernseys, and was beaten 
by only two of the Jerseys, and she has 
bred on and on and on. Her daughters 
granddaughters and great granddaught¬ 
ers are doing as well as or better than 
she did, and her sons and grandsons are 
doing a great work in producing their 
kind. Henry Clay is the sire or grand- 
sire of 26 cows and heifers with average 
yearly records of over 9,000 pounds of 
milk, and Gen. Clay has a lot coming 
on that promises to do even better than 
these, and there are others. The Glen- 
side Herd reported 44 cows with milk 
records of 8,000 pounds or over for the 
appendix of a recent volume of the 
Short-horn Herd Book, and this is but 
one of the many herds of milking Short¬ 
horns that have recently been estab¬ 
lished. They are just beginning to at¬ 
tract attention and if it is possible to 
breed and feed one of them to a record 
of over 18,000 pounds of milk and 
nearly 730 pounds of butter in a year it 
is highly probable that there will be 
more that can do the trick. In 1909 the 
Cornell University herd numbered 37 
cows, all ages; three were Short-horns, 
two of them heifers, the remainder Jer¬ 
seys, Guernseys and Holsteins. The av¬ 
erage per cow was 7,463 pounds of milk. 
The Short-horn cow Dairy Maid gave 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7,708 pounds milk, which you can see is j 
better than the average of the herd. Her 
butter record for the season was 320 
pounds. The heifers’ records as two- 
year-olds were for Lady Clare 5,502 
pounds of milk, Ida Buttercup 5,233. At 
the Greenfield (Mass.) Fair last Sep¬ 
tember the Shorthorn cow Beauty 7th 
won first prize in a 24-hour butter con¬ 
test conducted on the fair grounds, 14 
cows competing, Jerseys, Guernseys, 
Holsteins, Ayrshires, Normandy and 
Short-horns in the class and her rec¬ 
ord was 2.37 butter. I believe the dual 
purpose Short-horn will show up about 
as well as the dairy breeds taken col¬ 
lectively. Up to October 31, 1910, the 
American Jersey Cattle Club had reg¬ 
istered 246.918 cows. How many of 
these are in the Advanced Registry? 
There has been a wonderful increase in 
the number of Holstein cows kept in 
this State in the past 10 years, in both 
purebreds and grades, but up to date I 
have failed to read of any phenomenal 
increase in the output of dairy products 
in the State. My observation is that the 
Holstein breeders are leaning towards 
more of a beef form in their bulls than 
they did a few years back. It is but 
a question of time when the beef cattle 
of this country will be bred by the 
farmers, and the dual purpose breeds will 
surely come into their own, because the 
average farmer who will undertake to 
produce beef will want a cow that will 
be making good in the dairy while her 
son is growing into a profitable steer. 
It will do no good for the specialists to 
keep “knocking,” for the dual purpose 
cow is here, and has a rapidly growing 
crowd of admirers. a. h. prince. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
A Corn Harvester Necessary. 
I have been much interested in the dis¬ 
cussion about harvesters to cut corn. We 
have used them a dozen years or more, aud 
find them almost an absolute necessity, as 
it is almost impossible to obtain hand labor, 
to say nothing of its being quicker and 
more economical with the harvester. An¬ 
other thing, the corn being left in bundles 
is much easier handled, not only in the 
field, but also at the silo, where three men 
can put more corn on the cutter-table than 
five could if it were not bound. I think 
your correspondent from Maine puts it 
rather strong when he says that “one team 
will cut five acres easy in a day.” We 
think four would he nearer to the fair 
day's work, lie doesn't say how long the 
day is to be, but we know that the team 
which cuts four acres of corn, averaging 10 
feet in height, rows three feet apart, will 
be a pretty tired pair of horses. We have 
done the trick, but it will not average as 
much as that the harvesting season. We 
also have found that the driver was willing 
to rest by that time if he kept the machine 
in shape, at least that has been our experi¬ 
ence on our own farm, and while cutting 
for outsiders. There are five of us who 
own harvesters in a radius of two miles, 
comprising several different makes. In re¬ 
gard to there being difficulty in plowing, we 
cannot see why there should be any more 
trouble in plowing after a harvester than 
where the corn is cut by hand, as we calcu¬ 
late to cut as low as or lower than a man 
will cut by hand. I would like to add’just 
a work about silos and silage. After hav¬ 
ing used them for almost thirty years, I 
fully believe that it would be impossible for 
me to make milk at a profit without silage; 
certainly I should hate to try it. At the 
best with the present prices of grain and 
hay, together with the price of labor, the 
margin is small enough, if perchance the 
margin is not on the wrong side of the 
account. 
Milk is now 35 cents per 8% quart can 
at farmer's door. w. h. p. 
New Hampshire. 
About Thi* Cow 
Prof. Edits. XJ. of M., writes: The 
first six months "Missouri Chief Josephine ” 
produced 17.008 lbs. of milk — the largest pro¬ 
duction on record. The Dried Beet Pulp 
serves to loosen up the ration in such a way 
that it is easily digested—makes it impossible 
for the feed to become a solid mass." 
Are You Getting All That 
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I F YOU are not feeding Dried 
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Dried Beet Pulp shows a very marked 
increase in milk supply. Three weeks 
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10%. This is a very natural result 
because Dried Beet Pulp loosens up 
the ration so that it is digested very 
easily, no food is wasted and the milk 
production is thus increased. 
Most of the famous cows that have 
made great records, like “Dolly 
Dimple” and “Missouri Chief Jo¬ 
sephine,” have been fed on Dried 
Beet Pulp. 
Dried Beet Pulp is simply our 
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and water extracted. It is just as suc¬ 
culent and palatable as June pasture. 
Comparative tests have proven 
Dried Beet Pulp to be superior to 
corn silage, but the two make a 
splendid combination. 
Are You Willing To Accept More Profits? 
If you are, go to your dealer, show him 
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a sack of Dried Beet Pulp at our risk. Insist. 
Feed one sack, mixing the Dried Beet 
Pulp with a properly balanced grain ration. 
If the cow selected does not give more milk, 
we authorize the dealer to return to you in 
full your purchase money, and we will in 
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You arc authorized to sell to any dairyman who w !, I 
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