The Dual Purpose.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 January 1911, Page 3

The Dual Purpose.

9 A man who has read an article setting forth the disadvantages of the duai-purpo.se cow requests an article written that will make tho one he read "look like thirty cents." It is not in order to write in favour of the dual-purpose. The principle of the dual-purpose cow is wrong. There are special things for special purposes. If a man wishes to use a screwdriver he wants a screwdriver, a tool for that purpose and nothing else. A neighbour took the agency for a combination -bit-sick and monkey wrench. ft made a very poor monkey wrencli and was practically worthless as a bit-stock. A com•bination tool may satisfy the needs of a man who has very little tinkering to do, but the workman does not use it. 7f a man had a farm that would raise wheat advantageously and lie had a market assured of a dollar a bushel, he wo mid not raise oats just because he could feed the straw to the cattle. If there were just one woman in the world who was suited to be the wife of a man, and lie know what he was about, would lie compromise tho matter and marry another? Life is too short for such things. There is one best of everything. Tf a man wishes to produce beef, lie should choose a breed of cattle that has been bred for thte production of beef for generations. If he wishes to produ.ro milk, he shouJd choose a breed that has been bred for the production of milk for generations. Tacitus, the Roman historian, nineteen hundred years ago, wrote of the Friesians as breeders of cattle. Nineteen hundred years of breding for milk means something. The man with the dual-purpose cow is astride the fence. He must get <lown 011 the ground 011 one side or the other, or else struggle to maintain his.-eriuilibrinm with every wind that blows.—Raymond \Y. Sponenbergh in Milk Reporter..