A Temperance Society, by John Frederick Herring, Sr

A Temperance Society, by John Frederick Herring, Sr.
Identifier: triumphswonderso01boyd (find matches)
Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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hbullocks are marketed from three and one half years, as was formerly therule, to twenty months, it is possible for the same farm to produce one thirdmore animals in a given series of years. It may be admitted that not all of the stock of beef-prodtfcing animals, nor THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN THE ANIMAL WORLD 3(57 even the greater part of it, has acquired this extreme degree of early maturity,but most of it has developed somewhat in this direction. The large-boned,gaunt, and long-homed cattle of Texas have nearly disappeared, and even inMexico they are being rapidly replaced by others of better quality. Themost important fact is that breeds exist which can be depended upon forthe speedy transformation of the entire stock of cattle when the necessityarises. A similar hastening of maturing has been accomplished with the muttonbreeds of sheep, with numerous varieties of swine, and to a considerableextent with poultry. The development of the dairy breeds of cattle has also been remarkable.
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A TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. (HEHRING I It can be best appreciated by contrasting the half wild cows of our Westernplains, which yield but two or three quarts of milk a day at their best, andnone for half of the year, with the highly specialized types which producetwenty to thirty quarts daily when in full flow, and with which the milksecretion continues from year to year without interruption. The yield of butter has been increased equally with that of milk, andamong the dairy breeds there are some which are specially valued because oftheir aptitude for butter production. While the unimproved cow yields butone fourth to one half pound of butter a day, good specimens of the best breedsproduce from one and one half to three pounds, and in numerous instancesstill greater quantities. In the production of wool there has also been a wonderful advance. Thefibre has been increased in length, the fleece has been distributed more uni- 368 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY formly over the surfa