THE CATTLE FOR HARD TIMES

Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1775, 26 June 1926, Page 2

THE CATTLE FOR HARD TIMES

THE RED POLL IX U.S.A. MILK AND BEEF. American farmers, like those in England, are experiencing difficulties, and under these circumstances it may be interesting to quote from v the journal of the Red Poll breed in the tlnited States some conclusions arrived at by farmers in the great middle West. In a statement in which reference is made to the fact that the Red, Polls are displacing other breeds, because as dual-purpose animals “they are a better fit,” this conclusion is arrived at: “/Since the hard times for farmers have compelled .the most searching effort to get farm business on the highest pinnacle of economic effectiveness, increasingly are farmers under this compulsion, turning from the one-pur-pose breeds to the breed that better, more .constantly, persistently, and consistently than any other performs edononricajly in bdth of the great, fields of bovine production.” From the same source comes the declaration that the Red Poll breed provides real genuine beef of the choicest quality, and milk that yield,s as fancy butter as any, is superior for cheese making to any breed (except possibly Ayrshires). Then comes a further claim which has long been made on behalf of the Red Poll breed in this country, that, it provides the best possible substitute for the natural food of the infant! “There is also a good deal in the argument forthcoming from the same quarter that the average farmer cannot afford to lay new foundations every year. He must find something that will serve both purposes—milk and beef.”