Pars for Farmers.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1910, Page 4

Pars for Farmers.

The cranky cow in the yard will throw all the others out of temper, and should not be kept a day longer than it will take to consult the burtcher and agree as to a price at which she may be passed along to be made beef of.

AVhen you have a breed you must maintain the standard. There is in every animal the tendency to ieve.rt—the atavistic tendency, and if lelt to themselves to breed' as they would the prize cows in a icw generations would found degraded into mongrels.

A wonderful cow is Dolly Dimple, of Guernsey breed. An officiaj report lias been issued by the Massachusetts Experimental 'Station oi a twelve months' test. At the beginning of tho test she was just three months short of four years of age, and had calved five days previously. During tho twelve monthsslip produced 13,458.81b of milk containing an average of 4.91 per cent olj'a.t, equal to a total yield of 1058 M). On one day she gave liS.llb of milk. Naturally, such a wonderful yield was only" given on a liberal feeding ration", but the gross return is so big tlnat a liberal food hill can well be paid and still leave a large- profit. Dolly Dimple's record is said to be the'best over made by a Guernsey cow, and lias rarely been exceeded by anv breed.