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THE RUKAL NEW-YOKKEK 
March 20, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
ZEBU BRAHMIN CATTLE. 
A recent bulletin from the Louisiana 
experiment Station refers to the use of 
Zebu cattle in the South. Beef cattle 
with some of this blood from India have 
appeared in the live stock markets. In 
response to a request for information we 
have the following from Prof. W. H. 
I >alrymple: 
We do have some of the Zebu blood in 
our State, although not a great deal of it 
at the present time. Some years ago, 
however, some importations were made, 
and occasionally we find traces of the 
Mrahmin in different sections of the State. 
In this Parish (East Baton Rouge) 
there is one farmer who has a few pure- 
breds, and who has been grading up on 
native stock by the use of his purebred 
Zebu males. I believe that most of these 
cattle are to be found in Texas, a large 
importation having been made from In¬ 
dia. 
These cattle, as no doubt you are 
aware, belong to a different species, our 
ordinary well-established breeds belong¬ 
ing to Bos taurus, while the Zebu belongs 
to Bos indicus. The latter seem to have 
an unctuous scretion of the skin which 
appears to repel insects more than our 
ordinary stock; and while cattle ticks 
are found on them, they seem to be more 
repellent to ticks than our modern breeds. 
Still I have no doubt that the ticks 
would not starve if they did not have 
the modern breeds on which to become 
parasitic. The experience mentioned in 
the bulletin was that of one of our local 
farmers, who had a few head of grade 
Brahmins in a carload of fat steers he 
shipped to the New Orleans market. I 
have made further inquiry of some of 
the live stock commission men in New 
Orleans regarding these animals as 
butcher’s stock, and the information I 
get is, that while the young Brahmin 
grades, say 30 months to a year old, make 
very fine heavy veal the mature animals 
do not cut up profitably on the block. 
That is, not so profitably as the modern 
grade steer of the Shorthorn, Hereford, 
or Aberdeen Angus breeds. In other 
words, there is more offal and cheaper 
cuts, and not so much of the high-priced 
cuts. This, of course, is not to be won¬ 
dered at when we consider that the Zebu 
has not received the attention in its de¬ 
velopment for a butcher’s animal as the 
modern beef breeds have. 
It is possible that these cattle might 
have a place along the littoral of the Gulf 
of Mexico, where insect life is numerous 
and irritating to animals. However, I 
am told that when the Brahmin is left 
alone on the range, he becomes quite wild 
and difficult to handle. The Federal bul¬ 
letin to which I have referred gives cuts 
of these cattle, and also crosses from 
Hereford females which seem to show up 
pretty well. I have never, personally, 
been able to bring myself to believe that 
we need these cattle to supplant the mod¬ 
ern beef breeds, except, perhaps, under 
very exceptional circumstances and con¬ 
ditions. W. H. DAI.RYMJ’I.E. 
FROM FAR-OFF NEVADA. 
Y OU have certainly convinced me that 
TnE R. N.-Y. is a good advertising 
medium. The little report that you pub¬ 
lished in regard to prices of Alfalfa hay 
has brought me inquiries from four differ¬ 
ent persons wanting from one carload to 
1000 tons (besides inquiries to our post¬ 
master) ; these inquiries came from New 
York, West Virginia and New Jersey. T 
have answered all except one whose card 
I have mislaid, a cooperative buyers’ as¬ 
sociation in New York, for whose benefit 
I would say our rates are $10 per ton 
to Kansas City, $11.50 to St. Louis, just 
one-half what they were prior to Jan¬ 
uary 8, but still prohibitive for the East¬ 
ern trade. Next year we hop* 1 to get 
rates by way of the canal that let us 
place our hay in the Eastern and South¬ 
ern markets. L. E. Cline, U. S. Govern¬ 
ment dairy expert, who is the man who 
secured us the lower railroad rates is 
actively working to this end. Mr. Cline 
is working to educate the farmers to the 
necessity of testing their cows and to 
know the true dairy type, and for this 
and other purposes has organized a dairy¬ 
men’s association. 
The Churchill County Creamery Co. 
has furnished the farmers here several 
hundred cows, the farmer paying one- 
half of his cream check on the purchase 
price and interest at 8 per cent, each 
month on the unpaid balance. Of course 
many of the farmers being new to the 
business, and the cows being brought in 
from California, some did not make as 
great a success as they had hoped, but 
as the men have gained experience and 
the cows have freshened in their new 
home the results are better. I am told 
that some of the cows and also some of 
the dairymen will have to be tested out 
and put in the discard, but on the whole 
I believe it has been a success. C. J. 
Ileisey, the manager of the creamery 
company, tells me that he intends to 
distribute several hundred more of real 
dairy stock, either heifers from well-bred 
high-producing dairy stock or cows that 
are heavy producers, 
We have had a very dry Winter, no 
rain or snow in the valley and only a very 
light fall of snow in the mountains. A 
good many are planning to break up 
Alfalfa and raise wheat which is $60 per 
ton here locally. The Reclamation Ser¬ 
vice has just completed the great Ta- 
hontan dam, which will make a reservoir 
holding 290,000 acre feet, or enough 
water to cover 290,000 acres one foot 
deep, so locally we do not anticipate that 
we shall be short of water with which 
to irrigate, but all are not so fortunate. 
Northam, Nev. c. W. H. 
BITTER CREAM. 
Con you suggest a reason for cream 
turning bitter when only a day or so old? 
We only have one cow, fed a ration 
furnished by you a short time ago, of 
corunnal, bran, cottonseed meal and mid¬ 
dlings, with mangels and hay. We have 
more cream than we can use at table, so 
wish to make a little butter, but find the 
cream bitter, even that used on table. 
Milk is kept in cellar, temperature is 
not very l.w, but cream turns the same 
when kept in pantry where it is colder. 
Brightwaters, N. Y. s. E. c. 
There may be more than one reason 
for the bitter flavor. No mention is made 
as to the flavor of milk, but we assume 
it too is bitter. There may be some bit¬ 
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the only one of the feeding ration that 
may be suspicious. The cow herself may 
be responsible for this, for when lacta¬ 
tion is far advanced the milk very often 
has a disagreeable salty taste; in ex¬ 
treme cases it is bitter. Bitter flavor 
may be caused by bacterial growth due 
to conditions surrounding the milk or 
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