UNKNOWN. CATTLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 7 April 1888, Page 6

UNKNOWN. CATTLE.

Sc\i! mniii 'i- a,:t) \\( pubh-hed mhiio ohsi'i \ .ition- mi i!k \ iluo ot ileietoid oattle tor ii,iii\ jnii jKi-''- w hen bied with a \ii w to nu'kinu. i in 1 1 •iit -, mkl c ;4.n ( M)mc l',iiL;ii,-i) le-4nm>i,\ i'Mim (ho cone-pondent of .in ]]nuh-h lomnal a- to the c apabihlie- oi Huiloid-< a- 1 1 1 1 1 ,> cvi'ilo uiu'<i pioper man !•_ "inent as i e;:aid- I>i>edin^. As we ha\ o in Aim Kland .< >-ph mini sti iia o! this bleed (it cat (10, wo .»</ain ili.iw oin l cadoi -> attuniion 1o whai lia- Itoon j»io\cil with io (.Mid tn l lie daM (|ualitn> o1o 1 a iMilUijitr .->ti,nn (.1 iltu'oid- Mi .lohn Hill, wi ( luu eh Stit tton, wiiles io the / n< .S/m /, Jnii i wif as lollow " I dunlvthiit it may luMit -unio int<;io-i. to 1( j.ni i,i\ U\poiiciiO(i Mith inlaid 1p the milking (ju diliiatunw oi llou-loi I--, and at thb-niK time not, 10-m<4 tli^ii moat-pio (iiH'inu (piiditit^. lam a- cuMoined to k >oll maiij puii 1 Im'd Moiotouh to lai^e <lan> i.miK'i -. .md oor-npicih o f t-inall liohhnu,- tcM cni^>in|.' pnipo'-L'S, whoio it i> »-->< v ntid !o jiioduoi l)o<h millv and lloli, ami Iho tosull. is -ilwav* .^distal (o\), o^\)vc\ ally \^))oj'c bultoi maKitiL, i- <.imcd on, (ho (]nald> ot thrh milk hcin^ c\ceH(M)l, second only to ilia', ot ihe.loi^t} 'Iho iol low 1115.', i.-Ntiact tioiu Iho />/*( 1 <1< is' Joiinui/ (Ainoiioin) i'ol Soi>tcml)Oi, 1836, pti^c 559, U'tuN to "-hong (lien my opinion. 'At the Ont'ino (Jolk-<iO ilicy keep ton bloods ol cattle. . . ' . Bui. what the I'ioiehsov is paitioidarly jiroud of i,s ihe Jloiotoid cow. Cionkhill' Ducho-s 2nd, who jh a hi;; niilkoi, \eiy noh milk; th),sjs(,li( jii^t ilriu y cou on the wholo c\ j)oiimont<d i.iini, and the otl'ui nine hrtn (X as a dairy animal, acooidint; t-o the (.estnnony of f'roio.ssor Blown ' 1 hrod and .sold this animal to Piott-soi PhWii; her dam and all her iamily wliich 1 have now in my hurd, are ;^ood inilUoi •>, and ] have !-<;voral ot.hor si vain equally <. r ood, ospcoiully lho.se of Iho Oonklull I 'oily family. 'Tliom> calUo not only milk deeply, ijul put, on ilesh rapidlj, when led lor btof, and bulls irom such milking strain." a- those cannot fail to cro^s well on other cattle tor dairy pnrposo." No ono knowing im\ tiling about the points ohirichniilkprodnoing- cow can look at a Hereford without recoup. ibing tlio chaiacieiibticfe ot such un «'inimu) in the dark red colour and the orange hue ot the %kin. IjuL years' of poisifstont bleeding lor beet alone ' have to a certain extent obliteuited the inherent milking qualities

of I Ins breed. II is well worth Mhilo to! tiy and restore these valuable characteristics, and it can be done easily enough in a lew generations - by judicious breeding 1> om cows of a good milking tendency. We ha\o no doubt that Mr liheiyMacLean, if applied to by anyone who was iorming a davy herd, would do his bc^t to select for him a cow or bull, or both, coming from animals which have shown <j;ood davy qualities in hi.-, own held. Wo believe that there is no breeder of Hereford* in this colony who can show such lii si class aniiualo oi this breed as those brood lor )n.my ytMi'rt by tho Mc»hi,s It. and 14. Mac Lean, of Uleak House, I'akuianga. «