A SUGGESTED NEW BREED OF CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1648, 27 January 1883, Page 4

A SUGGEST ED NEW BREED OF CATT LE.

Mii'J: K. Vruht wVitos/tb k\\^ OidtU'idoc and Coital nt O'elilfeimUi (Albany, New* York), nu f( Hows:-" The transmission of •$HHity of VnllK'|»y liW and* qiVaiitfty^ 1^ dam is quito remarkable in the' f c«W of •Jersey bulls bred to Avishiro cows. D. K. Wheeler; of lalWVitfv Farm. Natic's, jntruhased of -nie t a daughter of tlio i Ayrj Jtsiiir(!;cq)V, , '^Jartlia,r ah 'htiiinal that haj her ,gu n weight, ,of ( milk in «»cll twoiiiy-lwo" da-ys during five months after calving. The s.ir<? of the Jersey; AY-beeler, cow ( Duke, u son of the Jcisey ', cow, D Virymaid, an animal that has ' made lSlb of butter in a week. Mirtba'e jriiil? was such' obis brst approci.ited l>v '^Vendors of null?, canyin^ but little .cream, though rich in c'aisen, and well adapted for use in hotela, restaurants, ' &ud city households. Yet the Wheeler cow with Jersey &iro and Ayrshire dam, ■ has made 3.1311) of butter in twentyseven weeks, besidrs furnishing milk for household use in a family of seven, who were not bbiutcd in quantity consunicd ' ilor confined to sUm milk. Kor five montlis and twenty - two daya after calving this Wheeler cow gave an average of U).l quarts of milk per day. " Cannot tho American breeder produce a lace of cows by crowing these two estimable breads, the -Jersey and the Ayrshire, that shall stand at the head of all the breed s> as butter-makers ? Today a Jersey cow stands or falls on her record. Dairymen and stockmen a$ veil demand meiit with pcdigiee. At the present time the Ayrshire cow is found on the milk-producing farms adjacent to or within leach of city markets, and from IV lnch the city milkman diaws his supplies. As fetoolv foi tihoioughbicd pinposes, my opinion h that the Ayrshiros are losing giouud on the vast dairy .sections de\ oted to butter-making. YcL I .see for the&e s>ame Ayi shires, if topcrossed by Jersey bullb the foundation of a magnificent r.ice of cattle." 1 ' Were ten fanners, for instance, to muke a compact to inaugurate and carry forward such a movement, discording and not recording my female that yielded less tlum tiw JU-quart minimuin of milk, and agreeing nob to use any bull of the emus tho milk of whoto dam produced less than Hlb of butter per week, and by exchange ttiul use of bulls of same ago as the liuifct's, until tho desired rcsulte. bo acuotuplished, in «ix years thoac ten farmers Would be well rewaidod for their labour Uud otitluy, dud would occupy enviable positlona among brecdeis of fine cattle."