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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma391901sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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A Prize Winning Jersey Bull. follow the herd and the adding of pure- bred females, until a yield of 10,500 lbs., milk was rea hed; but merely to point out that breeding to beef bulls produced beef with certainty, and milk with very great uncertainly; while breeding to dairy bulls made milk a certainty and fair feed- ers of the cross-bred steers. The growth of the cross-bred steers was specially noticeable, being greater than that made by the Shorthorns; but the finish and handling was no as smooth. I have pointed out before, that the aver- age man does not understand the great gain in milk production by placing a pure bred dairy bull at the head of the herd. If a cow sired by such a bull produces but one pint of milk at a milking more than her dam did, in the 600 milkings per year it comes to 600 lbs. This amount at eighty cents per 100 lbs., would come to $4.80 per year; or for the six years' average life of the milk cow, to $2S.S0. Thus, if a bull sire but ten such cows he would earn $288 for his owner; whereas he would probably sire many more, and the gain would not be less than 1000 lbs milk each per year. "What matter if the butcher will give your neigh- bor $5 more for his Shorthorn grade than you for your Holstein-Friesian grade, if your cow has already earned you many times that amount, more than your neigh- bor's has for him? The high or rich flavor so much com- mended by the experts who award the prizes on butter at some of the dairy ex. hibitions we suspect to be in a large part due to an excess of casein in the butter. By what process it can have been retained there without leaving too much butter- milk we will not pretend to explain. "We know that newly churned butter, which has not been thoroughly washed and worked, has to us a finer flavor when new than that which was well washed while in the granular form, or as the directions say, when the butter is in granules about as large as a grain of wheat. But this casein, or ihe buttermilk that holds it, causes a rapid change in flavor to one that is not as pleasant, and this may help to explain why Borne high testing samples are found to go off in flavor so rapidly. We are not so sure but some methods of feeding may develop more casein as well as to make butter harder, softer, or more oily in appearance. Years ago this would not have been thought possible, but now these are well known facts. Will J. Smith and Joseph Green, two farmers who reside at Trask on the Sacra- mento river, purchased a Shorthorn bull from the Howard herd at the State Fair last week tor $300. The number of cattle and other stock sales made during tlie fair were numerous. From Pueblo, Colo., almost to the Kan- sas line, a distance of 100 miles, is a fec- tion in which the chief crop is cantaloupes, made famous under the name "Rocky Ford." The 'Netted Gem" is the variety, and in 1900 780 ears were shipped from 2500 acres. This year the acreage has been increased 10 per cent. The value of the crop is very large.
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A Typical Holstein Bull.

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