DAIRY COW BREEDING
A COMPLICATED BUSINESS.
Dealing with the problem of breeding dahy cows Mr. H. G. Robinson, lecturer in Agriculture at the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, recently made some pertinent observations, says a British exchange. Soundness in cattle, he said, should be the first point in constructive breeding. A low mortality rate was more valuable than a high average milk yield plus a high mortality rate. The breeding of dairy cows was a much more complicated question than that of ensuring the perpetuation of gonfl milking qualities, because not only did the law require that milk should bo supplied to the public from healthy cows, but the demand was "rowing for the higher grade of milk direct from the cow, as distinct from ordinary milk which rhe dairy companies made safe fbr infant feeding by pasteurisation. Of two cows of equal milk yield, the more valuable was that which would produce the more healthy progeny These are considerations to ponder over at a time when there is such a craze for heavy milk yields.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 12
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176DAIRY COW BREEDING Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 12
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