PRODUCTION POINTERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 2

PRODUCTION POINTERS.

At the end of his recently-published bulletin. "Feeding Dairy Cattle/ A. C. McCandlish, of the lowa Station, gives the following suggestions, which' he ternis "Production Pointers":— 1. High producing cows are the basis of profitable dairying; the most economical results cannot be obtained with poor producers. 2. A good sire will rapidly grade up a herd for high production; any purebred sire will not do —he must he able to transmit producing ability to his offspring. 3. The care given to dairy heifers will determine to a great extent the profits th«y will make when they join the milk, ing herd. 4. A good cow will respond to good treatment, and even a poor cow will increase in production if she is properly handled. - 5. Without liberal feeding liberal returns cannot be obtained. A heavy producing cow cannot do her best work unless she is well fed. ■ 6. The milk scales and the Babcock tester separate the good cows from the l>oor cows.