JUDGING BY TAPE MEASURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 8

JUDGING BY TAPE MEASURE.

OPINIONS OP ACTHOBITIES.

Judging ■by • tapo measure has already been explained in The Domisios. . Latest files state tliat experiments-111.connection with , the measurements of cows are wins conducted in an .experimental station ot the United' States Department'of agriculture. Among some notes' recent y issued cn the experiments was the followrjß: "J Schmidt measured 3/1 cows according to \ Werner's 'method, His general con-, elusions are that there is a relation be<t,weeh conformation-and nnlk yield when the'dimensions of the-different parts of an animal are considered as a whole, nut that the -dimension of one part, of body alone is uot a. reliable Riudc m the choice of a dairy animal, as there aie many other factors to be considered. "Body measurements and- other determinations were made of 104 cows of the various highland breeds of Germany by C. Kronacher." says another note. 'He draw? his. deductions by arranging the, animals in classes, instead-of'subjecting hi*.data to biomedical analysis, and coneludes tliat there' is a correlation between the-form of the body and the production capacity."