PRODUCING RICHER MILK.
KNOWLEDGE FROM RESEARCH Careful research has shown that a cow which gives rich milk utilises her food more profitably than a cow which gives milk *oi a poorer quality, so that, from a money point of view, the production of milk rich in butter-fat is very important. In the effort to increase the yield o r but-ter-fat in the herd, the hereditary influence of the male animal, with regard to the fat percentage, shows itself thus:— (a) A bull can only increase the fat percentage average of the herd whose average in this respect is lower than that peculiar to the bull itself; (b) the fat percentage of the offspring will be lower than that of their dams if the same bull should be paired with cows that have a higher fat percentage than that inherited by the bull itself; (c) male and female animals transmit to their offspring a fat percentage conforming with that which either parent animal has inherited from its dam or grand-dam.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 14
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169PRODUCING RICHER MILK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 14
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