HERD TESTING.
An English expert, alluding recently to the keeping of milk records, said that these would show that the difference between the best cow and the worst cow in the herd, in the yield of milk, was over 100 per cent. In some Lancashire records taking one herd of 34 cows, the best cow gave 1082 gallons in the year, the worst cow 390 gallons, and they gave an average of 750 gallons. In another herd of 29 cows, the best cow gave 1053 gallons and the worst cow 523 gallons. It seemed to him that thoße figures proved conclusively that.they could, by proper selection, materially increase the milk supply. The tale in Yorkshire was very much the same. Out of a small herd of cows the best gave 986 gallons and the worst 447 gallons.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 570, 24 May 1913, Page 2
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137HERD TESTING. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 570, 24 May 1913, Page 2
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