“BREED DIES BEST”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 231, 12 September 1934, Page 5

“BREED DIES BEST”

Praise for Polled Angus

VALUABLE FOR CROSSING

Under the heading of “The Breed that Dies Best,” the Graziers’ Review, of Brisbane, one of the leading agricultural publications of Australia, prints an article on the Aberdeen-Angus breed. •

“The thriftiness, hardiness and early maturing qualities of the Aber-deen-Angus sire are daily gaining him friends; the small man is using him in the dairy herds for getting vealers of a profitable nature, the outback man to cross on herds of doubtful breeding, with a view to breeding a black polled herd of early maturing beef producers, and in this way save freight and avoid waste through bruising,” states the article. “The butchers throughout the world for years have been singing their praises and if farmers realised the importance of the Aberdeen-Angus as a sire for crossing, the value of their cattle would be doubled. They are such wonderful bulls, give such a great proportion of prime cuts of beef, which is so well marbled and so little rough waste fat in proportion to the weight of carcase. “The breed should be most carefully watched and only the best of bulls should be put on the market and farmers should buy only good quality bulls, it being bad business to buy cheap bulls. This would go a very long way towards lifting up. the whole beef industry to a far higher standard than it is to-day. “Those who have used well-bred Aberdeen-Angus bulls for crossing on any sort of cows have been very quick to realise the wonderful results obtained. Not only do their progeny mature much quicker, but all the Aberdeen-Angus good qualities predominate —the horns are in most cases lost, the cattle become an even colour and the beef is improved to such an extent that when killed it is of first quality. It is trulj- the ‘breed that I dies best.’ ”