Show inheritance factors experiments almed aimed at fixing the inheritance factors in dual purpose cattle are to be undertaken by the minnesota agricultural experiment station at its waseca branch dr andrew boss vice director of the minnesota experiment station and supt bupt robert E hodgson of waseca will carry on the work they are now studying pedigrees pedigreed grees of milking short horns with a view to buying a number of high producing females for a foundation herd more interest Is being manifested by farmers in dual purpose or milking shorthorns Shor thorns now than ever before says doctor boss this has probably been accentuated he says by the recent high beef prices and the present low prices fir dairy products while it Is known that many individual animals of the dual purpose type have the capacity to produce both beef and milk efficiently one of the big drawbacks as that such cattle cannot be depended upon to transmit these qualities to their offspring the present series of experiments will be designed to correct this deficiency |