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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 28, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
AN ADDITIONAL SHORTHORN RECORD. 
N OW that milking Shorthorns are be¬ 
ing imported into this country, it is 
greatly important that the best in every 
way shall be got out of them as far as 
this may be possible. As registration 
stands now in the existing Shorthorn 
record, the importers of the milking 
Shorthorn meet with a very serious 
handicap. It is probably correct to say 
that more than half the dairy Short¬ 
horns, as they are called in England, are 
of short pedigrees, so short, that they 
do not fulfil the requirement of the 
American record. They find a place in 
the English Herd Record, as five gener¬ 
ations of breeding from purebred Short¬ 
horn sires will admit them to registry in 
that book. 
Now it is a fact that many of the best 
of those registered Shorthorns have short 
pedigrees. Many of the very best per¬ 
formances at the pail are of that class. 
For some of them the highest prices must 
be paid, or the importer cannot secure 
them. 
Suppose that he purchases these in his 
search for the very best producers, and 
that he brings them to America. When 
they reach our shores they are grades. 
In England they are purebreds; in Amer¬ 
ica they are grades. That does sound 
absurd. Cattle are imported because of 
their superior intrinsic value, and a voy¬ 
age across the Atlantic will divide that 
value by two, and in some instances by 
three, or four. Can anyone imagine a 
greater handicap than this on the breed¬ 
ing of dual Shorthorns in America? The 
answer is not valid which would say that 
they may be bred from existing Short¬ 
horns that are now registered. Of 
course they can, but the country cannot 
wait for this. The country is crying out 
for milking Shorthorn sires, and it can¬ 
not get them in anything like a sufficient 
supply. Shorthorn sires are being sold 
that in many instances are represented 
as milking sires when they are not. 
Neither on the side of the dam or the 
sire have their ancestors been milked, 
hence they have no just claim to be 
classed as milking Shorthorns. So great 
is the demand for pedigreed Shorthorn 
bulls in America today of the dual class 
that it would seem correct to say, if 
10,000 such bulls correctly bred were 
available in America they would not re¬ 
main unsold for 10 days. 
This does not mean that there are no 
milking Shorthorns in America bred on 
correct lines. There are some herds, but 
they are few. They are so few that 
the sires from these, so to speak do not 
make a drop in the bucket. Nor does 
it mean that among herds of pure Short¬ 
horns which suckle their calves, there is 
not a goodly number that milk with rel¬ 
ative freeness, but no adequate measure 
has been taken of their performance at 
the pail. They have been allowed to go 
dry after every calving at the end of 
seven or eight months, hence in the 
true sense of the term they are not milk¬ 
ing Shorthorns. Nor does it mean that 
Shorthorns are not superior to the cows 
of most other breeds in furnishing beef 
for their calves. 
In the absence of another record, or 
in the absence of some modification in 
the present record, the breeding of milk¬ 
ing Shorthorns in this country will be 
greatly handicapped. The handicap 
on importations has already been re¬ 
ferred to. But the handicap is more far- 
reaching. There are in this country very 
many cows essentially good performers 
at the pail, but they are not registered 
and never can be under the existing 
rules that govern the registration of 
Shorthorns in this country. 
There is no great incentive on the part 
of the owners to improve them. No mat¬ 
ter how many crosses of pure Shorthorn 
blood they can show they are still grades. 
It makes no difference how high they 
may attain in individual excellence or 
in performance, they are still grades. 
Now if record were allowed for these, in 
time very many animals would be able 
to furnish a pedigree that would entitle 
them to registration. It is only the ne¬ 
cessity for registration that is being dis¬ 
cussed. It is too soon to discuss in all 
details the rules that should govern such 
registration, but the question may be 
at least raised at this time, as to whether 
such an organization should be under the 
wing of the American Shorthorn Associa¬ 
tion, or independent of it and separate 
from it. 
In England as is generally known, the 
registration of milking Shorthorns is in 
the same record as the registration of 
Shorthorns of any class. There is a rec¬ 
ord kept, however, of the performance of 
the dairy Shorthorn cows as far as the 
owners may care to have their records 
published. There would be no great ob¬ 
stacle in the way of having the registra¬ 
tion of these cattle conducted by the 
American Shorthorn Association provid¬ 
ed it is in a separate record, and with 
rules governing the same modified as out¬ 
lined above. True, some provision has 
been made for taking care of milk rec¬ 
ords. An association has been formed 
to advance the interests of dairy Short¬ 
horns. The reference is to the “Dairy 
Shorthorn Cattle Club.” But the provis¬ 
ion thus made as seen by the writer is 
inadequate. Much more could be said 
in favor of this proposition. 
tiiomas SHAW. 
THE WAR AND PUREBRED STOCK. 
Aberdeen Angus Cattle; Belgian Horses. 
I DO not think the war will affect Aber¬ 
deen Angus cattle breeding in this 
country at all for two reasons. We 
have almost ceased the importation of 
that breed of cattle, because we now be¬ 
lieve we are doing fully as good work as 
they are, if not better, and because the 
war has not. as yet, interfered with the 
business in Great Britain. 1 have just 
returned from France, Belgium and Eng¬ 
land,. where I had spent most of the Sum¬ 
mer in an attempt to import horses, and 
have observed the conditions very closely. 
I left a fine lot in Belgium and France, 
not being able to get them out of the 
country, and now, I presume, they may 
be nearly all destroyed. From Belgium 
it is more than probable that there will 
be no more horses taken for this country 
in a considerable number of years to 
come, but we have a very good start in 
foundation stock, and should go right 
along breeding good horses, so as to be 
ready to furnish them with material to 
build upon when the war is over. 
In France the v, r ar has not encroached 
upon the horse-breeding districts, but it is 
fair to presume that many of the best 
have been commandeered for war pur¬ 
poses, and we may expect an embargo on 
exportation from that country after the 
war, for a sufficiently long time to recoup. 
Thus we are likely to be given a chance 
to demonstrate what we can do with ma¬ 
terial at hand, without exterior aid, and 
I am satisfied, for it is now time for us to 
try walking alone in the business, if we 
are ever to do so. H. M. brown. 
Highland Co., Ohio. 
Future of Jersey Cattle. 
The European War has prevented the 
shipment of Jersey cattle from England 
and from the Isle of Jersey to this coun¬ 
try, orders from the British Government 
prohibiting for the present the exporta¬ 
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