CULLING DAIRY COWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1480, 1 July 1912, Page 8

CULLING DAIRY COWS.

THE PROBLEM OF QUALITY AND QUANTITY. Some dairy-farmers consider themselves loading light-! in their respective districts, and who do not care to fall in with (ho Gnv-tcijtiitif Association movement, excuse themselves, or believe they do (says Mr. W. M. Singleton, of the Dairy Division of the Agricultural .IJe-pni-tiiidit) by statins that lo test for Uitter-fat. is unnecessary, and that n consideration of C|ii;Hitity is sufficient. It may be wagered that in about nine cases, out of ten when i\ man talks in this strain he is not c-ven weisjliiii;,' the milk from his individual co\rs. As a rule, liiosi' who have had some experience :u veighiiig the milk of their indivicri.il cows iiri> those who are mo-t anxious lo include the tests for fat as well ns thoje for inuinlity. In tin? lest number of the "Journal" of Lice Department, Mr. Singleton gives two picture illustrating the error which in.iy be counnitted in culling on qinintity alum. , . Cow No. 1 had a coinparativc-ly high tost; mill, although, her yield of milk whs Mow that of the average cow tested last season, her butlei'-tat priiduction ivm a-i lunch us 1-JTlli. above the average. On c|imiitily of cciillc only she would probably have been culled while many a more inferior coiv would have been retained in the herd. This demonstrate the fnct that intelligent eiilliiiss can only be done as Iho result of kmnvledne obtained throiiKh wi-ighing iintl testing the milk from each individual cow in the herd. Allhoiijtli cow No. '.' produced lltilllb. of milk more than N«. I, her yield ,of fat A WINNER 01' f'O.MPETITIDNS. Tlie EjfK-lflyinff Competitions for 19111-11 and ltlll-12 were both won by pens reared on "A. and P." Chick Raiser, The first essenfinl for protitable poiiltry Ireppinifi Obtainablo irom all titorekiijjor^,'