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he is going right on to grass, the natural diet for him, and you will have 

 no more trouble until next winter caring for the calf, providing you have 

 plenty of grass. 



When the calf is about to become a mother I would continue along in 

 the line of feeding good wholesome dairy foods, and I do not mean by 

 that that you have to give the heifer high priced stuff. You want to get 

 great udder development and you can do your part with that, too, by 

 feeding oats, bran, a little oil meal, or something of that kind, feeding 

 along the lines that will develop that cow and give great udder develop- 

 ment, and when she. becomes fresh you are going to have a grade cow that 

 I would almost guarantee, providing your sire is a prepotent one, that 

 the poorest one of those heifers will produce practically as much as one 

 of the best cows that you have in the barn. When you continue right 

 along in this line, and if you feel that you cannot afford to buy a new 

 sire, continue with this same sire on those heifers for a second genera- 

 tion, and if the sire is prepotent, if he has the right stamp that you 

 want, he will transmit those qualities to his heifers in an intense form 

 and you will build up your dairy herd in that way better than any other 

 I know of, but by all means do not continue this sire any farther. Buy 

 a new sire and when you buy a new one buy the best you can get, get a 

 better one than the first you bought. Continue in that line and I will 

 guarantee you will have a herd you will take pride in because there is 

 profit in it for you; you will be willing to spend time and care in taking 

 care of those animals because you will know at the end of the year the 

 balance will be on the right side of the ledger. I thank you. 



]\Iember : I want to ask one thing in reference to breeding. Mr. 

 Julian made the statement that a cow would transmit her good 

 qualities to her offspring. I do not understand it that way. I 

 understand that the characteristics of the sire predominate at all 

 times and unless you have a good milking sire the daughters of a 

 good cow will not have the traits of their mother. 



Mr. Julian : I think you will admit if you have a cow that is a 

 large producer and if she is mated with certain animals, she will 

 transmit those qualities in combination \^dth the sire to a greater 

 extent than another animal that has not those large milk producing 

 qualities. I understand the sire predominates but we do not know 

 all about that. Some of the best authorities think that about 60 

 per cent of the sire and 40 per cent of the dam. I tell you there 

 are a whole lot of those things that we do not understand but I will 

 say that I would rather take a sire from a large producer and breed 

 him in a herd of small producing cows and I will get better results 

 in his offspring than I would to take a sire from a low producing 

 dam and also grand dam a low producer and put him into a herd of 

 large producing cows. 



The Chmrman : Now, gentlemen, there is a matter that I wish 

 to bring before you this morning which is later to come before our 



