FEEDING AND BREEDING
TWO GREAT PRINCIPLES A great many farmers seem to bp unable to keep the two great dairy principles of feeding and breeding apart and adjust their minds so as to measure each for just what it is worth. One man will say everything is in feeding; another, everything is in breeding. The old law in logic, “never compare things that differ,” conics in hero, says Hoard-’s Dairyman.
Breeding cannot take the place of feeding nor can feeding take the place of breeding. A waggon is composed of wood and iron. The man who is judging a waggon and looks only to the wood will be fooled. So, also, if he looks only to the iron. In caring for it he must oil the iron gearing and paint the wooden parts. It won’t do to reverse this practice. Now, a dairy cow is mad-e up of breed and feed. We cannot measure what we shall do in one by the other. We breed to produce a certain type of a cow, with certain inherent dairy characteristics in her. Then wc feed her according to those dairy characteristics to support the action of a specific dairy function that
we have bred to produce. We must keep these two principles always sepnr ate in our judgment and pi act ice.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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