Breed Your Own Cows.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7402, 5 March 1903, Page 4

Breed Your Own Cows.

It is exceedingly tlillicult to got a ;;ood cow without breeding her. Oiioo in a while a farmer or dairyman will pick up a good cow from some farmer that does not know a good cow when ho sees her. Jhit tho intelligent farmer, und especially the professional breeders, prefer to hold on to their beat animals, nnd sell of the poorer stock. If a buyer wants the best cow in the herd he is charged a pi'ohibitivo price, or one that is so high that lie is likely to find little profit in her when tho cost and risk aro taken into consideration. Tho dairyman that depends on buying all of his cows will get beaten many times, or, rather, he will boat himself. Tho writer romomber3 ono man that purchased a "springer " to go into his dairy, Tho cow had n wonderful udder, and gave a largo How of milk. I It was, however, of very poor (jualily. - As tho milk wont into the general miisa for sale by the gallon for city supply, tho '* question of richness aid not count for j very much. JUit what did count was i % tho fact that in about four months tho | cow began to dry up, the quantity of milk j . having fallen to so low a point that she J was hardly worth milking. Moreover g

tho cow had v vrry bad habit oven when in full milk of holding up her milk at v every little cause of excitement. The man had paid for that cow ;i larger prieo tliiin whs being nsked for other cows that had smtill mUers. Taking the .Year as a whole, sin; was ono of tho most unprofitable cows in !nn herd. Thin goes to show that it ltiitii who buys a cow on 1 her appearance- cumiot by any nieiitis bo 1 suro of tho kind of cow lie is getting. 1 Ilenco tlio ncccKsity for tho farmer 1 breeding his own cows find keeping 1 them when they nre bred.