. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. October 25, 1902] ©toe gfceeiiev anXf ^tpaxri&man 11 THE FARM. The Heifers. It is generally recognized among good dairymen that the dairyman who has not a capital beyond the actual needs of his farming business can most cheaply and profitable replenish or increase his dairy by raising his own cows rather than by buying them. There are many men who claim they can tell a good cow by the looks and feel of her, but as a matter of fact very few actually can. Usually those who have this good opinion of their judg- ment are willing to back the opinion and judgmen
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. October 25, 1902] ©toe gfceeiiev anXf ^tpaxri&man 11 THE FARM. The Heifers. It is generally recognized among good dairymen that the dairyman who has not a capital beyond the actual needs of his farming business can most cheaply and profitable replenish or increase his dairy by raising his own cows rather than by buying them. There are many men who claim they can tell a good cow by the looks and feel of her, but as a matter of fact very few actually can. Usually those who have this good opinion of their judg- ment are willing to back the opinion and judgment with their cash, and continue buying cows; but, aa I have said, the more modest dairyman considers he is safer if he raises his cows from calves of his best cows crossed by a superior bull pure in the blood of the dairy breed he prefers. The sire should be good and be from a good cow, with as many good cows in his pedigree as possible. With such a sire the dairyman who has a well-estab- lished herd, that he has selected and built up by good feeding, the milk-scales and Babcock test, will find it good business policy to raise all his heifer calves to cow- hood, and keep up the process of selection and rejection. Some will be so manifestly bad with their first calves that they need no further probation. Others will not be absolutely condemned until the second or third calf. It must be a matter for the in lividual dairyman to decide what he shall do with the rejections from his herdâsend them to the butcher or sell them to the dealer who makes it his busi- ness too sell cows to the fellows who don't raise them. The cows may not be good enough for the exacting producer of them, who mav have his standard fixed much higher than the man has who is the pa- tron of the dealer. If the breeding dairy- man has a herd of registered animals, and intends to make commercial breeding part of his business, he should by all means send his rejected animals to the block; for unless a registere
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