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THE HIUKAL, N EW-YORKER 
January 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
RAISING BEEF CATTLE, 
In raising a special beef type of cat¬ 
tle, what use do they make of the cow 
after the calf is weaned? At the pres¬ 
ent prices of beef does it pay to keep 
a special beef breed, or would it pay 
better to have a good butter cow and 
make out of the extra cattle what one 
could for beef? j. w. F. 
Where extensive heef cattle production 
is engaged in the calves are not weaned 
at an early age, as is the case where rep¬ 
resentatives of the dairy breeds are used. 
The calves usually run with the cows 
until they are a good size, often until 
they are eight or 10 months old. Es¬ 
pecially is this practice true in case these 
AN OHIO BREEDING ASSOCIATION.; 
Can you give me information about the 
breeders’ association of which I read in 
The It. N.-Y.? I want instruction about 
how started, use, workings of it, etc. 
Deerfield, Mass. l. l. g. 
Community breeding which has so late¬ 
ly sprung into existence in America, is 
nothing more or less than the common 
practice of the breeders of Europe, who 
in sections and localities breed but one 
particular breed. This practice is carried 
on for several generations, until a county 
becomes noted for some particular breed, 
either sheep, cattle, or horses, although 
all three may be found in one restricted 
territory. This obtains on the Continent 
to a very great extent, crossing different 
breeds is about unknown in recognized 
“TRUE YOKEFELLOWS.” 
calves are to be used for show yard pur¬ 
poses. An ordinary farm practice is to 
wean them at a younger age, and in case 
cows are capable of milking reasonable 
quantities, the cows are used for dairy 
purposes; with a strictly beef type, how¬ 
ever, calves are weaned off as soon as 
they are able to Provide for their own 
maintenance, and they are re-bred and 
the profits are based upon the value of 
the calf produced. The present prices 
of heef, and particularly of feeders, nat¬ 
urally brings to the mind of the Eastern 
farmer the advisability of engaging in 
beef production. It would seem good 
judgment to suggest that ordinarily it is 
a wrong time to go into the industry 
when prices arc high, for usually a man 
is compelled to go out of such a business 
when the prices are low. However, if 
breeding territory, and grades are quite 
as scarce. Exactly the reverse of this is 
the common practice in the United States, 
and while abroad they build up and 
strengthen the qualities of their stock, 
we in this country work quite as indus¬ 
triously to diffuse it by a general mixing 
of breeds. Thousands of dairymen are 
doing so, and complaining about the dis¬ 
appointments of their industry. 
The community association inquired 
about by the correspondent is in Geauga 
Co., Northeastern Ohio, and is now com¬ 
posed of nearly 200 active members, all 
breeding purebred Ilolsteins, though some 
of them in part are breeding grades from 
the highest type bulls. The men who 
compose this society are farmers, using 
these fine cows to supply milk every day 
in the year to either Cleveland or I’itts- 
ALL READY FOR A SPIN. 
there is market for beef products in the 
inquirer’s territory it would certainly be 
more economical to use the beef-making 
type rather than to endeavor to make 
beef out of representatives of the butter 
or milk breeds. The milk and beef type 
which is represented by the milking 
Short-horn is a useful type of animal for 
the Eastern farmer to consider as a 
source of milk and beef production. The 
industry is extensively developed in Penn¬ 
sylvania, and it is only a question of 
time until the combination animals are 
going to invade the Eastern States. 
F. c. M. 
“Why do so many young men leave 
the farm?” “Well,” replied Farmer 
Corntossel. “in most of the cases I have 
observed it was because they couldn’t 
earn their salt as farm hands an’ wasn’t 
fixed to pay board.”—Washington Star. 
burgh. There is, with one exception, no 
one who could be called a professional 
breeder. While the society has been in 
existence about seven years, the owning 
of Holstein cows by part of the mem¬ 
bers dates back twice that many years. 
Hugh Van Pelt, the noted dairy author¬ 
ity, recently said that nowhere in the 
world in 20 miles square, could so many 
superior Ilolsteins be found, one man 
owning four world’s champion cows. 
Prof. Oscar Erf of the Ohio State Univer¬ 
sity puts it as strongly, and what is the 
surprising thing of the whole matter is 
that until within a few years every man 
of the society was just an unknown dairy¬ 
man. Now the name of Dan Dimock, 
Paul McNish, Knap and Pierce, and a 
score of others, are known the Holstein 
world round. 
This society is very largely a gentle¬ 
man’s agreement affair. In it individual 
opinion and action is without restraint 
and the bi-monthly meetings, of the so¬ 
ciety are very largely for conference, and 
the good of the society, to confer, and to 
receive the scores of men from half the 
world who now come here to buy, instead 
of going to Holland. Since the world’s 
four champion cows hail from here, the 
visitors come more abundantly, and 
prices have gone up accordingly. Heifer 
calves 10 days old are quick sale at from 
.$75 to $150, and other aged stock cor¬ 
respond. 
This is agreed upon; all shall breed 
from the DeKol family. Line-breeding 
is the rule, and in places it is hard to 
draw the line where line-breeding stops, 
and inbreeding commences, and some of 
the most successful breeders of the high¬ 
est priced stock, have not for years gone 
outside of their herds for fresh blood. 
It is this intense breeding that has given 
the four world’s champions all to one 
herd. 
Feeding, care, and discussing lines of 
breeding, make up the gist of these meet¬ 
ings. The best talent that can be se¬ 
cured, come for addresses about every 
three months. There are no hard or fast 
rules. Each member pays $1 annually 
for the regular expenses. The society 
has what might be called a “clearing 
house,” supervised by three members who 
“warrant and defend” the sales of all 
stock, have an eye on prices, and attempt 
to secure equity between members and 
buyers as well and such other matters 
as fall upon them. The society usually 
has “consignment sales” each year, but as 
their sales of surplus stock this year wifi 
aggregate about 5,000 head of all ages, iu 
the county to outside buyers, there was no 
stock left to consign, and the money 
brought into the section this one year of 
surplus stock alone will total oyer half a 
million dollars. It is figured that this 
community breeding has made the county 
richer by possibly over a million dollars 
in addition. Not all of the men who are 
breeding these valuable cows are mem¬ 
bers of the society, but are still patrons 
of it, buying fine stock, notably sires, and 
not a little good registered stock and 
grades go out from their herds, yet with 
the utmost good feeling on both sides, for 
in a way it is carrying out the community 
plan. 
These are some of the things that have 
made this little society great, and sent 
their herds to Africa, South America, 
Japan, Cuba, Mexico, Central America, 
and scattered its representatives all over 
the United States as foundation stock. 
It is little wonder that its bi-monthly 
meetings are usually attended by hun¬ 
dreds of people from every section, some¬ 
times a thousand, or more, and when 
they come, they find the everyday working 
farmers the owners of these herds,, cows 
actually in use for commercial dairying, 
not being fitted for the showing, and 
when records and papers are wanted, they 
are produced, not promised for “future 
delivery.” jonx govld. 
“What makes you carry that horrible 
shriek machine for an automobile signal?” 
“For humane reasons,” replied Mr. Chug- 
gins. “If I can paralyze a person with 
fear, he will keep still,. and I can run 
to one side of him.”—Washington Star. 
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