. The creamery patron's handbook. Dairying. BUILDING VV A DAIRY HERD. 11 enough to be retained in the herd. The offspring of even the very best bred ancestry needs to be subjected to rigid selection. The only way to do this' intelligently is to actually know what every cow in the herd is capable of producing, and to apply the same test to the heifers as soon as they come into milk. It is not always advisable to reject a heifer from the results of the test made during her first period of lactation. The inferior animals of defective udder, or seriously defective form, can easily be culled out by
. The creamery patron's handbook. Dairying. BUILDING VV A DAIRY HERD. 11 enough to be retained in the herd. The offspring of even the very best bred ancestry needs to be subjected to rigid selection. The only way to do this' intelligently is to actually know what every cow in the herd is capable of producing, and to apply the same test to the heifers as soon as they come into milk. It is not always advisable to reject a heifer from the results of the test made during her first period of lactation. The inferior animals of defective udder, or seriously defective form, can easily be culled out by the first test; but those of less prominent defects sometimes need to be re- tained longer, and in some instances heifers that promise well during the first period of lactation do not fulfill this promise by subsequent COLLEGE LILY-ABERDEEN-ANGUS. Yearly Butter Record, 387 Pounds; Net Profit, $ The feeding and general management of a dairy herd are an important factor in the results attained by the dairy herd. Excellence of breeding and inherited dairy function, may be set at naught by improper methods. Many cows never milk well because they never have a chance, and are never properly fed for milk production. If the same kindly treatment and con- stant attention bestowed upon the dairy cattle of the Channel Islands and Holland and Denmark, could be given to the dairy herds of our country, it would, in a great majority of cases, lead to double the present production. The modern dairy cow is a highly organized, sensitive, and artificial crea-. 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 [Kolarik, Joseph] [from old catalog]. Chicago, The National dairy union
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