THE SIRE AND THE MILK RECORD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 82, 15 May 1908, Page 3

THE SIRE AND THE MILK RECORD.

In breeding for imrrovement, the milk record of the sire's female ancestry is of just as much importance as that of the ancestry of the cow with which he is mated—is of more importance if the sire's ancestry has a better milk record. And the good dairy sire, pure bred, is almost certain to have a line of clams with a superior milk record; they have been bred for that very thing. Whether or not these very dams have been tested, so that the actual figures can be given, they are far more likely to have been, high producing cows than are she dams .of the momjrei Cow.- One of the viry greatest things to secure foi? the heifer calf is the inheritance of a large capacity for milk production, and this-conies from the mothers in both lines of ancestry. The calf will be much more certain of getting a high, degree of this quality through an improved sire than from -a. common mother. A high milk record "in the sire's'ancestor affects all'his female progeny, all the next generation in an ordinary sized herd. But such a record in the cows ancestry can affect but one calf a year —and not that many unless they are all heifers.