A REAL MILCH COW.

Otaki Mail, 29 December 1919, Page 4

A REAL MILCH COW.

An excellent example of constructive breeding is detailed by a bulletin published reccnly by the Kentucky Agricultural Station, America, in ISD7 a Jersey cow named Dollie's Valentine was purchased by the station, being approved by Ihe authorities as likely to be a real producer and a useful sort of cow. She was milked carefully ami fed well, and produced in one year 10,2181 b milk (1021 gallons) and 0701 b butter. - !?he was a prolific, cow, dropping a calf ivory year, and producing thirteen in :*!! before she died in 1010. Like a great many motherly cows, she transmitted the regular breeding habit to her oflspring. One daughter had ten c.vivos, another eleven, and a third

twelve. A> :• eonsr pienre of this pro lifie habit Ihdlie's Valentine's descon <lants to-day dominate the herd at tin

experiment ion. Daughters, granddaughters, an i great granddaughters of the old cow an* in (lie herd. Best of

all her descendants arc all making records that vuiy from 7oonlb to StHJOib milk, and -H Mil I > to (iUOlb butter a year. It pays to start with a good foundation in any class of stock, but having found it, it pays to stick to it, and to keep the best offspring from that stock.