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Show HORNLESS CATTLE. Would It Jle Possible to Breed FamlHea of Them? Of late there haj been less said on th subject of dehorning cattle than was written and said a year or two ago. So far as we understand the sentiment of the cattle handling community it has resolved itself to remove the horns on bulls, vicious cows and steers that are to be fatted for the shambles. Good, well behaved cows will not as a rule be dismantled dis-mantled of their horn appendages. It is certain that the shorthorn breeders and the Jersey breeders will never consent to a removal of the horns. On the contrary con-trary they will devote much time, slrill and expense in filing, scraping, coloring and polishing the headgear of their pet animals. The average cattle handlers, though, would prefer cattle without horns, though many of them doubt the propriety proprie-ty of dehorning. Mr. Morse, of the Windsor farm, has given the subject of floras or no horns much study, and has some confidence that he can produce a family of Holsteins that will be born without bonis. He argues that a curb back is apt to be transmitted by a horse, and why not a hornier head in cattle? Defects are reproduced, whether natural or artificial, with considerable certainty, certain-ty, and the transmission becomes more certain with each generation until the peculiarity is fixed. There is some logic in the gentleman's reasoning, and we shall not be surprised to see hornless heads, made hornless by breeding, among the Windsor Holsteins. It is altogether probable that a breed of cattle could be produced in time with only one horn or without tails. Patience and perseverance in one direction Avould accomplish almost any marvel of that kind. These results are scarcely more remarkable than the peculiarity of the Poland China hogs, for instance, which have become fixed the tip forward of the top of the fine ear, the heavy bains and the color, which differs from all other breeds, or the dished face of the small Yorkshires; or to go back to cattle, the short and comparatively small bonis of the Jerseys, shorthorns. Guernseys and IIolstein-Frie.si;in3. It is worth while to try to build families of hornless cattle in all the good breeds. Field and Farm. |