BREED YOUR OWN. STOCK
MR.^VEALE'S OWN EXPERIENCE. " On this point I will give you my experience. I started eight years ago with a herd supposed to be above the average at the time. They were ordinary cows of the usual all-breed type. My average returns were about 1801b of butter-fat per cow. I headed my herd with a pedigree bull of approved type, and gradually bred my own stock. My usual practice is to keep a bull until his own stock come in the milking shed, but never to inbreed., My herd consists now of fifty, not a single one of the original cows remaining ; of the fifty I have broken in all but three, and bred all but seven. Each year my returns have been higher than the previous one, and the average now is 2501b of butter- fat per coiv. many of them are only young, and not yet up to their capacity. 1. am well aware that some will show much better results than this, but it is my practice to give facts as
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 13
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177BREED YOUR OWN.STOCK Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 13
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