WHEN A COW IS AT HER BEST.
Valuable information on 'the above subject is supplied by the records of the South German Dairy Society. For 11 years a cneck was kept on 2000 cows all told, with the following results: —
From these it would appear that a cow yields most milk after the fifth oalf. After the sixth calf comes a slight decline, which was accentuated more ana more each year after. The advice of the result is: — Don't keep a cow in milk) aiter her tenth year at most. Fit hex fox the butcher.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2855, 2 December 1908, Page 8
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95WHEN A COW IS AT HER BEST. Otago Witness, Issue 2855, 2 December 1908, Page 8
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