AGE OF SIRES & DAMS
INFLUENCE ON OFFSPRING. : From investigations conducted by ■ the .Animal Breeding Research Depart- ■ merit of the University of Edinburgh to discover whether calves sired by old i bulls, or out of old cows, were in any Wav inferior to those whose parents; were both young, it was determined! that the parents' age in no way alfects I the inherent quality of tl:e olfsijring. ' It was found, however, that the age ; of the parents of by far the greater | number of show prize-winners was , four years or under at the time of j birth of those winners. This was es- I pecially marked in the case of bulls. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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111AGE OF SIRES & DAMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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