Ehorthorns.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 7, 20 August 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

Ehorthorns.

At a meeting of English breeders on the management of Shorthorn cattle the chairman said : " One great fault of. Shorthorn feeding had been that they had looked too much to beef and too little to milk. He had been grieved to* see a Shorthorn heifer unable'to bring up her calf and to require _n inferior, animal to be used. 3_r. Thomas Bates and other breeders usetlto boast about the milk as>weli%s thejbeef-producing qualities of their animals, but this was not so now. The object of the early -breeders of Shorthorns was not to. have

fashionable herds, but animals in the best condition. The miners and well paid artisans would not buy those great lumps of fat but as prime mutton and beef as could be. had. ' What the farmer how wanted was the class of stock fit to bring into the market as early as possible, and which would bring the greatest profit. What was wanted was to produce two-year-old bullocks as prime as they formerly were at four years." 'Our own breeders would do well to give heed to the above observations, for too many of them, have neglected the milking qualities of their Shorthorns, paying almost exclusive attention to them for beef. We have repeatedly seen the first, prizes at our cattle shows awarded to cows that had but two or three servicable teats, and to others whose udders and teats were so small they could not produce half milk enough to bring up a calf. It was not thus with the Shorthorn—they were almost universally great milkers.