BREEDING BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 4

BREEDING BREVITIES.

A cow which hits aborted should not bo exposed for sale until die has been isolated and treate<L Breeding i 3 no chance work. Those who begin without giving the matter any thought soon find it out. - A capacious, well-shaped adder, rf silky texture and well-developed veins, is a great asset in a dairy cow. Quality should undoubtedly be demanded in the siire. Absolut® typical masculinity, combined with good quality, is necessary if the animal is to be relied upon to transmit those qualities to his offspring. Cattle on pasture should be seen every day or two. Theirs is always the possibility of an animal becoming injured or ill. Prompt treatment may save complications. In order to get the right type of steers for feeding one must use breeding stock of the correct type and build. The lanky, shallow-bodied bull seldom gets the kind of stock that fattens readily. A point that is often overlooked in any 'V sire is the latent female characters that are present in all males. It has been .J noticed that the male offspring irom a good milking and prolific dam has these .<■ characters well developed. The breeding of purebred animals is a fine art. It not only requires a trained eye and a skilled hand, dul a vision of perfection in animal form, a lasting enthusiasm and faith that will carrv ;; through years of work, oftentimes through -j disappointments. Two factors that are chiefly responsible ; for the wider use of purebred sires, are educational work and economic pressure. Persons raising inferior stock cannot compete long with their neighbours' quality, „• which in most classes of stock, mature earlier arid bring better prices. It is an established fact that the wed- J bred animals aro smaller feeds in comparison with coarser-bred sorts. With a finer and more closely-knit frame, J 3,0 ." carrying plenty of natural condition, their appetites are smaller than i.s the case with animals of big, raw frames, bony and muscular, and with no natural f.esii. It is true that a heifer in first lactation will not give as much milk as a cow, bu she seldom involves as great an investment, and is more liable to develop a bad quarter or udder trouble than is ft cow. Some farmers have made good money by buying heifer calves and selling- them as two-year-olds, or just be 10.9 they were dne to freshen. Tn feeding dairy cows or the human bodv such ingredients must be providea in tho feed as aro to be found m tne , product produced. Thus, evciyt i•» which appears in the milk must ' ;i " s , found in tho feed. H it is not found , in tho feed it is certain never to «PP«£ . in the product. In fact, produe < ■ at once reduced when certain iru,« » found in the milk aro not fc-d. .• ■ M