. Biggle cow book;. Cow. [from old catalog]. 26 BIGGLE COW BOOK. mon sense should be depended on largely during the critical period after calving. Avoid cold water, cold wind, wet bedding, overfeeding. Make the cow com- fortable, and watch her bag. If her bowels stubbornly fail to move, Epsom salts must be used. But it is better to have the cow in such good condition that nature will do most of the work. The term of a row's usefulness is a thing of fact, not theory. High pres- sure will exhaust a cow ^|J^ in a few years. Good 'JSt&£& care will prolong her life. wedge shape. Drove cows
. Biggle cow book;. Cow. [from old catalog]. 26 BIGGLE COW BOOK. mon sense should be depended on largely during the critical period after calving. Avoid cold water, cold wind, wet bedding, overfeeding. Make the cow com- fortable, and watch her bag. If her bowels stubbornly fail to move, Epsom salts must be used. But it is better to have the cow in such good condition that nature will do most of the work. The term of a row's usefulness is a thing of fact, not theory. High pres- sure will exhaust a cow ^|J^ in a few years. Good 'JSt&£& care will prolong her life. wedge shape. Drove cows are some- times worn out in three years, while home-bred cows may last three or four times as long. The accepted type of the milk cow is the wedge; that is, deep behind, with light shoulders and head. The accepted type of the beef cow is the parallel- ogram; that is, the " brick-set-on-edge " form. It must be borne in mind that each and every type of cow may be the best; no dairyman can judge for ac^^^y^/ another dairyman. brick-set-on-edge tytr. Then, again, there are individual cows which differ in their products widely from the generally accepted family type, as certain Jerseys which pro- duce a great volume of milk and certain Holsteins which produce a heavy yield ni butter. It shows the possible power of the breeder over the animal. The important thing is to breed persistently for a definite 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 Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co.
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