CLASSIFYING COWS.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 64, 24 November 1911, Page 4

CLASSIFYING COWS.

A NEW SCHEME. A writer in the “ GuernseyPress” quotes one of the teachers at the Vauxbelets School as proposing the following scale for classifying dairy cows. Although specially applied to Guernsey, it may well challenge the attention of every owner of cows no matter whether scrubs, grades or purebreds: —“A Guernsey cow can give under the best condition of food and descent and care, ten times her oy/n weight mjrer milk production in her season, say a year. Those giving eight times their living weight in a season’s milk are valuable and profitable animals, and all farmers should aim such production. If only six times-her weight is yielded, there is only a moderate profit. When butrfive times the animal’s weight is yielded in weight of milk, only tlie cost of keep and food are earned, and just the value of the calf is added. Anything less is downright loss to the farmer. Every farmer ought regularly, to weigh the-milk from each cow or use a graduated milk pail, and so know which cows .are profit earners and which losers. Many farmers who complain that dairying is unprofitable are feeding cattle which: do not pay, and are ignore ant as to which they are. This home'-test can be easily carried out:by everyone." \ “ Stated in .another way and,in briefer 'fbrmG'the. classification may-be, tabulated as follows ; • Annual Yield ' of Milk. Class.-/ 7 10 times of cow... excel jefir 8 times weight of c0w......;..g00d 6 times weight of cow... ;1 .medium • 5 time's:we.igHt : pf cow... ..'.'.G.poqr Anything; less,!, worse than useless/