JUDGING BY TAPE MEASURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 8

JUDGING BY TAPE MEASURE.

'CONFORMITY AND DIMENSIONS OF COWS. . .. Experiments ivliicli have-not ■ accomplished much, but jnay be paving tho way. for great things in .the judging ; of; 'tlairy., uiimals, - are, being made .at the.['experiment station of 'the United Stitos\Department, of, Agriculture. /•Among some notes recently issued on th'e'lexperiments was'the following:— : Schmidt-, measured 37.1 cows according 'Ho.-'.'Werner's'• mefcliod.' His,general conclusions aro' that tlierp is a relation betweeti- . conformation and; milk yield when; tM. dimensions of the different , parts ,of an animal are considered as a whole, but."that the -dimension .of one part; of the;,body alone is not' a reliable guide, in .the'choice of a dairy, animal, . asSthere .are many other factors'to be considered.'! • .. measurements and other, dcweTe made of 104 cows of iho - various highland ' breeds of Germany.by C. Kronacher," says another note. "He, draws his deductions by arranging- tho animals in classes instead of his data to - biometrical ■ analysis , and-concludes that there is a correlation^."between the form of' the bbdy and- the production- of milk, as all milk breeds conform to a certain type, - aithbngi'ilie;..'points* of a dairy animal may ..vary somewhat in. different breeds : nnd thefe 'are always varia- . tions.V-- ; . '