DUAL-PURPOSE RECORD

North Otago Times, 4 August 1903, Page 4

DUAL-PURPOSE RECORD

'■ Tlio "Prairie Farmer" contains a long ' and laborious article to convince the * farmers that the most profitable khitl e of cattle to raise is the dual-purposo '■> .sort. It- publishes, a. statement of an r English trial to show the great superiority of the Shorthorn over the >- Jersey as a dairy animal. This was 'f -Ijho twenty-seventh annual dairy shcW t of the British Dairy Farmers' Assqcins tidn. The statement is as follows : 'f/ In determining the rating of a cow s in this trial the weight of the milky J'l time since calving, per eojit. of fat ami. x\ solids not fat in the milk were all .eon-, i; sidered, Tho number of points gained ■-} in this milking trial by each ef the four t\ best Shorthorns and the four best _Jorf soys were as follows: Shorthorns,.lsl.4, s, : -139.4, 132,4 and 130.3; Jerseys, 114,1, V- 107, 105.4 and 93,5. The average for yf tlio four Shorthorns is. 139.13 ami for : (l - the Jerseys IQS paints, or. a gain of e' 32.51 per ceut. for the former over the v! latter, Tho number of points credited i,\ to the poorest one of the four Sliort- ?! horns, it will he iioricucl, is 14.2 per r| bent." greater than the -best Jersey.■ fj Consider.ins! the yk4d of butter alone i*' wo find that the average for the four Shorthorns is '2B per mil. greater tliaii ■for the four Jerseys and that the yield . from tlio poorest- Shorthorn was 17 per cent, greater than that from the best' Jersey. Now we have htitl two great and not-: ~ able trials in America. The First .was, ,: at the World's Fa.it at Chicago iii which.' gf - Jerseys, fiuernseys imd Hliorthorns palv i.' : | t.icipated. ftacli of these breeds; of cat-' -;: tie was put forward' by tbe. National' it' ABsorjiatibn that 'represents them, and--H: who selected the best specimens of thp" '■■'■■ breed t-lvcy ccaid '-.. V';--Jj' Did the Shorthorns win there ;'ev'eii ; ,;; with, tli<l fictitious' advantage-of a.raft' t- i.ng.for gain in flesh \vhicli.. has. no- iiiorc. I business' in a dairy contest than tlio. 1- c-ol'oii'r of tbeliairl- ; V'.' r. 'year |ii which .three tinaj-purpoße .breeds' s put their best foot forward'; t:hc: Shorts si horn, and; :tlio^ : l3r!own : :' s„Swiss/ Did -tlio- dual-purpasovidea-wm'. •T'there? England, nor any.-^hori-coiuitry'' * over hadjsuchavicoittost/a's.exhah'stivej*. !j plaimcil and: .'foiigiifc out^te'discern' !" ,-thOctruth as lietweciahp; dual and spe--0 pial-pur'iißs'e-iijca'sj'-as tlio.two.cohtests' , wo lia-ye iiained. lii. both'-pf .theiri ■■:.; special! purpose' ;<la,iii\y ; ,-::;''tlicit. ecbjicmiesltperip^ 1,... -ft,is ; 't|uitoiiice'ly4haf v.iivthp Contest; wei-c- bred'as likb-ttf breed all i,;cattlo;;;affor;th6.Sliprtligrniidea.- :EveiL bf;:Q«v. nivcst 'Jersey ex°;,.pononts are getting poisoned .with tho ...;sanio': idea of .biit-Jiiio aiKl-'iorni. The :«o^l)cdr,;lipxlbubt, will be \ ■ that-tbb:.rac6liorse/men-.,are ■'advocating o\ , 'tlio , -.top..an>-lio'tWiir-imcs on tlic draft: -;h Elicit■>• wonderful diiirv' breed, why • /■dwi!Whoy-win;liiamericaii contestsP .... .Why. don't tho- advocates' of' tho Mioi-t-' /.■■liO'rn.wtl--Kotl-pblls,--'iis:(lairy cattle 1,-.quote trials a «s.. proof or.; .their/ superiority P Moro i■ St, ■•Lbuis : Exposition!is coming./ let us have a contest there 7 based qu- tlio samo.truthful,, fair and ' exhaustive lines of the Pan-American 1 «; ia| r Oloro than, this, let some of those .; bhorthom and;-KotlpcH breed"'-'' brim/ .; forward' bulls which sliow : ! by^their?;.bmjd .and outline that they.'aro:ro"i poaitorics of dairy power and'prepot-' '.enw.. ...; ....'.'.' ■-.■.;■ : " flB flrink ot pleajttrb *iid oi ■ ;;|;-/;; wgi&l

se ' ■ Wots any oiie supposo that su'oK al bull, if it, is possible to;find one, ; would ICe win a premium in a Shorthorn or'-Red!-. in- poll show? What clear-eyed consistess ency of breeding principles there is seen in theso "dual-purpose"" claims. —"Hoard's," . : ■