PROPERTY SALES. COLOUR FADS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 18 September 1911, Page 8

PROPERTY SALES.

COLOUR FADS.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Fdlrnerston North, report during the last month having effected the following propart.v sales:—On account of Messrs. Bradley 8r05... of Jlataxoa, their freehold property of S2OO acres to Messrs. Marmaduke and"William Dixon, ot Canterbury. On account of Mr. A. Oruickshank, Mnng.'iwcka, ")G0 acres, L.1.P., to Mr. J. W. Wall, of Peep 0* Day. Oil account of Jlr. A. Jiatzke; Mangaweka, 320 acres. Educational lease, to Mr. 10. K Stuckoy, Mangaweka. On account of tho Manawatu Timber Company, CO acrcs, leasehold, to Mr. It. B. Knight, of Mukowluii.

Chick-rearing is not only profitable, but a plrasuro, when you feed "A. and I\" Chick Raiser. It is a complete and properly-ldended food for Young Chicks. Obtaiuablo from all, storekeepers.—Advt.

Dairy farmers must havo strong, serviceable, and easily-cleanotl cans. Victor is the nr.mo of tlio can that suits every requirement, and it pays handsomely to uso these cans and 110 others. Every lid Trill Jit every can. Send for a cataloguo to Albert J. Parton, .Carterton, * .

PROGRESSIVE BREEDING OBSTRUCTED.

A crusade of interest to judges lias been entered upon by "Hoard's Dairyman" against tho tendency on the iin-rt_ of breeders of dairy cattle to run to fiuldism on points of colour or some other bare notion that has 110 bearing whatever on tho real merits of the breed. It is argued that it would be a grand thing for tho true progress of' dairy cattle breeding if the business could be emancipated in . some way from the silly domination of these faddist notions. Proceeding, tho journal in question deals with the matter in characteristic American stylo. The Ayrshire people, it says, indulged themselves for years in the fad idea of short teats until they nearly ruined this sterling breed in the estimation of all discerning practical people. Now they are doing what tliey to change tho Ayrshire cow over, or, 111 other words, repair the effects of their former folly. ■ The Jersey breeders followed off after the strange pods of a black noso and switch and solid colour, and all tho time nature was raising her voice in constant protest against such ideas by producing cows of wonderful merits, having light noses, white jwitclies, and broken colour. But the faddists kept the b'urden 011 as long as they could. Tho Holstcin breeders are fast binding the_ shackles of a fad notion of colour 011 their breed. There must be more white, and nature and reason ask, "What, has that to do with breeding for merit?" Tho faddists cannot answer, for they arc not real breeders,, governing themselves with sound principles bawd on physiology and that alone. The Guernsey breeders are fast establishing their share of, this fool work also, in that a cow or bull must have a light nose in order to be worth the price.. This amounts to an absolute handicap on the breed, and imposed a sacrifice of many dollars in the selling value of a worthy animal. It blinds the eye'to the larger and better evidences ■of quality, and sends many a right valuable, highly-bred bull-calf to tho block, and puts a bar sinister ou the heifer. '

No amount of protest has yet been able to lift this stupid obstacle out of the path of truo progressive breeding. It costs the breeders a largo amount of money annually, and-the breed itself the sacrifice of some of. its very best animals. It is stupid, tho article concludes, for' any breeder or association to allow these warty excrescences of mere faddism to take the place of sound judgment in determining what aro "good points" in their animals.