A WARNING NOTE.
AGAINST EARLY BREEDING. A warning note against the practice of having heifers freshen for the first time when they are little more than calves has been sounded several times of late in Canadian farm journals. One expert, writing on this subject, remarks that he does not believe in having a cow come in until she is three years old. He goes a step further, and adds that he believes that if a cow comes in at four years old she will give as much milk by the time she is 10 years old as a cow bred to calve earlier. This early breeding, the writer urges, is bound to result in small, undeveloped cows, although some breeders who follow this undesirable practice argue that good feeding after the heifer conies in will enable her to regain her size.
If a breeder has any doubts on the subject, it does not cost much for him to test the desirability of the two systems for himself, and then he will know for certain.
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Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 212, 13 May 1913, Page 4
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