SCIENCE OF BREEDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

SCIENCE OF BREEDING

[ The improvement of farm animuis I through proper methods of breeding I offers a Fargo opportunity to those engaged in rearing live stock. Ti c ait land science, ol breeding challeng.s the I best thought in man. He must not only study tho type of his animals, but their records. A good breeder, says a writer in Hoard’s Dairyman, must be a keen student of what constitute'', rich: conformation, and have the ability to analyse the iceords of the ancestor.’ of the animals he is ma.ing. Wc cannot, hope to make the desire progress by simply judging breeding animals from ■ypu and pedigree. It is necessary that ecords lie kept ol’ al! breeding animals ■«» t. of just a few of the be-1 ones, but every one, good or bud. It has been , he common practice to consider a mill >rovcn if he has three or four da ugh Iters that have made good rccoids, ii.«. withstanding he rnr.y have had fitly daughters with ny-dium or poor r - cords. Moreover, the cow max be largely responsible for thegoodp du tiou of his daughters Th* tin? measure of a bull iia-i only be obtain <! i.v . keeping record.-, of all hn