CATTLE TO KEEP.
A Canadian correspondent o£ the Michigan Farmer , who had considerable experience in the grazing of polled cattle and shorthorns in the mother country, says the ground needed to keep 10 shorthorns would suffice for 12 Aberdeens of the same age. Concerning the beef qualities of the two breeds he says : —“ Butchers in England will always give more per pound even for an old polled cow, properly fattened, than they will for an old shorthorn cow, let her be ever so well finished. The writer has often seen in the English markets the Aberdeen cows purchased at from 2 cents to 4 cents per pound more than could be obtained for the best shorthorn cows, and for the reason that an Aberdeen cow never gets patchy like the shorthorns,”
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Patea Mail, 14 March 1882, Page 3
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131CATTLE TO KEEP. Patea Mail, 14 March 1882, Page 3
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