WHAT'S THE TROUBLE?

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1918, Page 6

WHAT'S THE TROUBLE?

■To the Editor. Sir, —'Thirty-two years afro I helped tend on a Long Island farm, U.S.A., some fine specimens of the Black and White cows, big in the frame and abdomen, ret lean witlnil and true* wedgeshaped. A three gallon bucket was taken twice to each cow each milking. On coming to New Zealand, some 17 years ago, T found that a Holstein here to he counted a pure-bred must have a white star on tlw'forehead, and a white patch on the withers and rump. I tried some of them, and reckoned they were the poorest cows a man ever sat under. Or. the other hand, about the same time, I saw some sold "at Manaia. just black and white, which reminded me strongly of the Long Island ones, which, by t!ie way, were only ordinary farm animals, on an ordinary small farm. ■When the pedigree Triesians 'began to he imported from America, I bouoht a •bull by an imported sire out of an imported dam, and I kept him three seasons, worse luck, for he was an imdniMerl failure on the dairy side. He had fine calves, but his heifers grew up into mis-shapen mongrels, deep at the brisket, but yet skinny and herringjutted and noor milkers to boot. One old black cow that save over fiO lbs of i« :, V 011 her 10th calf, and was a model of what a cow should look like, bad several heifer-- bv Mm: good milkers, lnit not nearly so ffood as the mother. 'lm!lr>ckv about the bead and long in the le2- Xow what's the trouble? Are the breeders trvitu? to make the Frie«ian fol'ow t:lie 'Shorthorn? and how Ion"' ilf- they think the farmers -\vil- go on bv.ving bulls like that?—-I inn. «tc.. PUZZLED. Tataraimaka. 2nd .September.