Show CATTLE BEING BRED TO STAND AND ALASKA'S COLD Dairy and md Beef Animals Suitable for Arctic lIe Rc- Re Regions gions Developed n 13 By NEA Sen Service FAIRBANKS Alaska Jan 1 1 Beet Beef and dairy cattle breeds suit suit- suitable suitable suit suitable able for tor the rigorous climate ot of Alaska are aro being made to order I by the United States department ot of agriculture at nt the tho several agri agri- agricultural agricultural agri- agri agricultural cultural experiment stations here Our most hardy beet beer breed bred the Galloway Is being crossed with the shaggy yak of ot story-book story tam fame to produce a desirable cattle The calves obtained by these cros crosses es are are too young as ns yetto et to determine just juat how near nar they will meet the requirements but results are promising The yak ak Is a a native of ot the higher regions of ot central Asia where It Is used as os a II beast of burden and to some somo extent for the production ot of milk The long covering Its It skin Is also ot of otmar mar marketable value In that country The female yak ak and Ii a bull calf were wre obtained as foundation stock from Irom the Canadian government go whIch has maintained d a herd for some somo time at the tho wright Wain-wright na- na national na national park In Alberta Albertn HAS IMS n IR OF 01 YAK The first yak Galloway calf the tho result of ot mating the time yak bull to a Galloway cow was a curiosity Atthe A At Atthe I Ithe the time of ot Its birth which was WIlS normal in all respects there way was little to distinguish It from a full tuIl- full blooded blooded Galloway As Ac It grew however Its hi tall tail became brushy and Its hair grew grev shaggy Two other calves seT seT- sev several eral months younger had coat coal coal black black curly hair at birth The hair of ot one has since turn turned d brownish In color and rather woolly All of ot these calves grunt like the yak ak when hungry rather than bawl like a Galloway The The Galloway breed was as select select- selected selected ed td for the regIon because for tor nearly three centuries It has been bred under conditions similar to 0 those of ot southwestern Alaska It ItIs Itis ItIs Is strictly a beet beef breed but with the increasing demand In Alaska Alasta for a hardy milking cow tor for tam fain family ily lIy use usa It was decided to utilize e Its hardy characteristics In th de- de development de dc development of ot a dairy breed bread CROSSED ron Foil Accordingly tho Galloway was as crossed crossell with the Holstein Friesian Holstein crosses being made both ways The Tho Holstein Galloway cross cross- crossbred cross bred are aro hornless like the Gal Galloway loway lowny Iowa and also black but lack the heavy coat of ot the latter Like the Holsteins they have a sleek sed coat of ot short hair and are not I notI for that reason as ns well adapt d adapt to the cold colli climate as ns are the bred pure bred Galloways I I However it Is Interesting to note that the tIle face taco cold cohl ratay torms stOrma and toll follow ow the tho Gal Gal- Gal Galloways where as the Holsteins do not range In stormy weather but gradually work their way to shelter Only generation first cross crosses s have shave come to milking age so tar far They are not heavy henvy but compare favorably with the ner age family cow cow- cowIt It Is hoped that some ot of the tho second third an and 1 succeeding generations generation will show milking qualities tracing back to their Holstein ancestry I |