DUAL PURPOSE COW.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10357, 19 April 1930, Page 1

DUAL PURPOSE COW.

o ■■ VISITOR EXTOLS SHORTHORNS. An advocate of the dual purpose ' cow, Mr Alexander Maclaren, of Buckingham, Quebec, told a Dominion represenative of points concerning the Shorthorn breed as a dual • purpose cow. ''l have long been a firm believer in the beef and milk type of Shorthorn," he said, "I long ago concluded that the Shorthorn cow which " would function as a liberal producer of milk, and whose animal produce could be developed into prime beef, wjtere such a method proved desirable, is an economic necessity on &rms where mixed farming is the rule. "My observations have quite clearly convinced me that the beef type -1 of bull is of a phlegmatic disposi- | tion, whereas the strictly milking ' tppe is of a highly nervous disposi* tion. Consequently in breeding for the dual purposes type where milk t and boef are looked for; temperaments, I believei should be taken into consideration, and I have endeavoured to so direct my breeding operations to bring about the desired results in this regard."