Milking Short-horns

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 73, 22 November 1883, Page 3

Milking Short-horns-

Great milkers have from time to time app^areda mon_; the highest bred cows of the grandest of rlngiish breeds, the Shorthorns, but tbe original stock from which tbis long pedigreed race has sprung- is famous for giving a great j abundance of miik, so that n t oniy is | this quality occasionally developed ; in certain families, bred piimarily as i b-'ef-producers, but fhere are hundreds, j aye thousands, ot herd.- <>f so-colled " common" cows iv England kept for milk alone, in many ol wheh only thorough-bred bulls are u*ed ; and by a wis" provision their progeny, alter fivegensrutiou.s. e-ich repr« ■■.ui'i.-g a cross with a thorough -bred bull, pre admitted to record che same a* thoro-ugh-bred aiiimals- Thus, in the i iitilisu shorthorn Herd-book there are numerous animals with very short pedigrees. They represent in many cases cows whose milk-giving qualities have m r been bred out but rncoura.^d. They are J_r c, very broad, level, fine boned end well formed, with great haunches und enormous udder > with large t<-a.s. Mj--y often :,iv>, twenty ta thirty quarts of mil k * (\.y and ijoEiHrime:* more. It i> usually uf fair, but uot ofremirkahle richues. it is g'»od milk lor city use. The cows fa •''ten i-a..ily after their milking days are over.