. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. DAIEY FAEMING CHAPTER I. Breeding and Selection of Daiky Cattle. The Practical Difference between Good and Bad StockâIllustrated by CasesâImportance of Breeding for Milk in Pedigree StockâExamplesâPedigree Breeding an ArtâMain Principles of BreedingâAll Animals tend to Produce their LikeâBreeding Consists of Accumulating the Tendencies of Successive Generations in One DirectionâIn-Breeding and CrossingâEvils of BothâMeans of Avoiding them, by Crossing FamiliesâEffects of a "Raw&q
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. DAIEY FAEMING CHAPTER I. Breeding and Selection of Daiky Cattle. The Practical Difference between Good and Bad StockâIllustrated by CasesâImportance of Breeding for Milk in Pedigree StockâExamplesâPedigree Breeding an ArtâMain Principles of BreedingâAll Animals tend to Produce their LikeâBreeding Consists of Accumulating the Tendencies of Successive Generations in One DirectionâIn-Breeding and CrossingâEvils of BothâMeans of Avoiding them, by Crossing FamiliesâEffects of a "Raw" CrossâThese Principles <^ â^ ^^ Applicable to the Breeding of Dairy StockâDirections for the First SelectionâPractical "^EW things coutribute more to a dairy-farmer's success thaii skill in selecting and breed- ing his dairy-stock. Some men possess this skill in a high degree intuitively; others _^ acquire it by careful obser- ^"â â¢' vation and long-continued experience; otherSj again, never can or do attain it; but, however it may come into a man's pos- session, it is no mean element in his success, may lay it down as a first principle that a farmer may just as well have a good class of stock as a poor one. The land that will maintain twenty common-bred cows will maintain twenty well-bred ones, and the annual profit from the latter will be considerably more than from the former. It is, in fact, a dead loss to keep common, weedy animals in the place of good ones ; and the sum of that loss is just the difference in the net profit which the two kinds respectively give to their owners. As this difference is a serious one, let us see in what it consists. It is a fact, so well ascertained as to be no longer disputed, that some cows will yield more milk than others will on a given quantity and quality of food; and it is no less true that they will yield more heef under like conditions. This superiority consists in the greater ability of
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