SCIENCE OF BREEDING.
Tlie improvement of farm animals through proper methods of breeding offers a large opportunity to those engaged in rearing live stock. The art and science of breeding challenges the host thought in man. Jic must not only study the type of his animals, but tlieir records. A good breeder, says a writer in Hoard's Dairyman, must lie a keen student of what constitutes light conformation, and have the ability to analyse tlie records of the ancestors of the animals ho is mating. We cannot hope to make tho desire progress by simply judging breeding animals from typo and pedigree it is necessary that records be kept of all breeding animals—not of just a few of tho best ones, but of every one —good or bad. It has been tho common practice to consider a bull proven if he has three or four daughters that have made good records, notwithstanding he may have had fifty daughters with medium or poor records. Moreover, the cotV may be largely responsible for the good production of his The true measure of a bull can only bo obtained by keeping records of all his daughters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21164, 22 April 1932, Page 15
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193SCIENCE OF BREEDING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21164, 22 April 1932, Page 15
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