Shorthorn Dairy Cows.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 86, 12 June 1908, Page 3

Shorthorn Dairy Cows.

In England the milking Shorthorn, pedigreed and otherwise, stands out as the most popular and most widely kept breed. In America, on the other hand, the Shorthorn has not been held in so good repute in the dairy, but evidently fashion is changing. " A feature of the trade in milch cows at the Chicago stock yards, and in all the region tributary to that great market, is the demand for large cows of the milking Shorthorn type," says " The Breeders' Gazette," " These cows, showing plenty of size, are eagerly bought at long prices by the dealers from New York and Pennsylvania. Newly-calved, or well along in calf, such cows elicit the strongest competition. The dealers explain the demand for them by saying that as the eastern dairymen no longer makes any attempt to rear his own heifers into profit he must have something that will yield a remunerative How of milk for a time, and then fatten readily into beef that brings a good price. This combination is found in the

Shorthorn type of cow, which is bringing as much as any other sort of distinctive dairy breeding." Referring to the above, the " English Stockbreeder " says that it rather controverts the theory held generally in America that the dual purpose cow is an impossibility. Probably this class of Shorthorn does not give the very highest grade of meat, but it gives first-class beef. It is just this ability to give a -paying yield in the dairy, and then to lay on flesh rapidly and economically, that has made, the Shorthorn so popular with dairymen in this country.