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SELECTING CALVES.

ELIMINATING THE TTNFIT.

Never rear a calf that possesses manifest shortcomings, is. puny and ill-developed, or has any malformation. "The best calves from the best cows,, should be made, if an inyarl. able rule. This, attention to grade and weeding out as and when required is the only way to keep up a stock of perfect animals; and. it is at the first importance that the young stock, which will eventually take their place in the herd, should be as good as, or better, if that can be managed, than their predecessors. It is»a trite and true saying that "the best pays the best," and, so far as value is concerned, there is no comparison between a well-graded herd, each animal doing its best and representing a maximum of profit and one where good or bad poor feeders, poor milkers, diseased or weakly-constituted animals are mixed up together. Where a herd of the first-mentioned type is wanted,- the breeders* rule mustbe —never keep a poor cow in the herd, and, similarly, niever rear a poor calf, whether heifer or bull. "Keep" is such a heavy item in the farmer's expenditure that it is to his interest to see that weedy and more or less worthless animals are not consuming what would keep goad and - profitable ones. This remark not only applies to cattle, but to horses, sheep, '• , ; ij pigs and all farming stock. j>.

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Shannon News, 14 March 1924, Page 4

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236

SELECTING CALVES. Shannon News, 14 March 1924, Page 4

SELECTING CALVES. Shannon News, 14 March 1924, Page 4

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