. Dairy farming. Dairying; Cattle. 70 DAIRY FARMING one cow who will have at most only a few daughters. This is the basis of the old but true saying, " the bull is half the ; The main opportunity for improvement in a native or mediocre herd is by using a good sire. For example, one. Fig. 26. — An excellent three-quarters-bred cow, showing what a pure- bred sire can do in two generations. The grandmother of this cow was a rather poor milker. She herself produced in nine years, beginning when she was two years old, 96,800 pounds of milk and 3814 pounds of bull might be th
. Dairy farming. Dairying; Cattle. 70 DAIRY FARMING one cow who will have at most only a few daughters. This is the basis of the old but true saying, " the bull is half the ; The main opportunity for improvement in a native or mediocre herd is by using a good sire. For example, one. Fig. 26. — An excellent three-quarters-bred cow, showing what a pure- bred sire can do in two generations. The grandmother of this cow was a rather poor milker. She herself produced in nine years, beginning when she was two years old, 96,800 pounds of milk and 3814 pounds of bull might be the sire of 20 daughters in a herd in one year. If the dams be capable of producing only 200 pounds of fat yearly, and if the sire represents a breed or strain the cows of which are capable of producing 350 pounds of fat per year, it is evident that, if the daughters averaged only half way between, there would be an increase of 75 pounds per cow 1 The Cornell Reading-courses, Vol. Ill, No. 54, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eckles, Clarence Henry, 1875-1933; Warren, George F. (George Frederick), 1874-1938 joint author. New York, The Macmillan company
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