Milking Shorthorn Breeders' Guide: Containing Descriptions of the Milking Shorthorn Herds Owned by Members of the Milking Shorthorn Club of America Articles of General Breed Interest by Live Stock Authorities of the Country and a Repair of Record of Merit - Softcover

Milking Shorthorn Club Of America

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133223352X ISBN 13: 9781332233526

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Milking Shorthorn Breeders' Guide: Containing Descriptions of the Milking Shorthorn Herds Owned by Members of the Milking Shorthorn Club of America Articles of General Breed Interest by Live Stock Authorities of the Country and a Repair of Record of Merits Lists From Volumes 1-2-3 of the M

Seeing that this publication will most probably. Reach many people who heretofore had little opportunity of knowing much regarding the origin of the breed, it is considered that it may not be out Of place to refer shortly to a few interesting facts regard ing the history of Shorthorn cattle.

During the earlier decades of the eighteenth century a class of cattle of considerable reputation existed on both banks of the river Tees, as it divides the counties of Durham and York in North England. Although this was long before Herd Book record days, it was spoken of as the Teeswater breed, later be coming known as the Shorthorn, as distinguished from the Lon g horn breed, and becoming known m the earlier days of their introduction into America as Durhams from one of the counties in which they originated. They were known to have been large, strong boned, rather flat sided cattle that arrived at maturity rather slowly, but attained to great weight. It is generally nu derstood that the cows of the breed were good milkers. This breed of cattle was one of the first to receive systematic and widespread attention along pure breeding lines and can lay claim to being one of the oldest breeds of improved livestock. As early as 1750 the breed had begun to attract the attention of all the progressive farmers, feeders and grazers of the country side both far and near. Each of those who took pride in cattle vied with the other in the exhibition of good specimens of the Tees water type; and we can imagine with what absorbing interest these breed builders compared the relative merits Of their stock and with what satisfaction they noted the progress being made.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 133223352X
• ISBN 13: 9781332233526
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 67