THE LIVE STOCK OF THE FARM. 



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nine only, I might be asking what the management or the cow may not 

 be able to influence. 



All these desirable results require a certain machine, which we call a 

 cow. Now, just as we build iron and wood to do certain kinds of work, 

 we find in nature most clear evidence of cow machinery usually called 

 breed, and individual constitution making very different milk from 

 actly tin- same materials, under precisely similar conditions. 



Some remarkably good cows seem to bid defiance to all sorts of stand- 

 up Is of points, but this does not militate from the value of a standard that 

 is known to average all the virtues of cow life. 



I have pleasure in drawing attention to a table that is the result of 

 nearly Jive thousand observations with ten breeds and grades of cows dur- 

 three years upon seven years' experience of the Ontario Ex- 

 perimental Farm, which, though not full, is yet of such extent as must at 

 least interest anyone desirous of reliable information. 



LILT OF NEARLY 5,000 TESTS ON BREEDS OF CATTLE FOR THE DAIRY 



AND CREAMERY. 



t( beefer >f tli.- \v..rM, tli.- hurliant. is nritli.T a l,-:ivy n..r a 

 Miilker, comparatively, on an average, altlmugh sonn- in-iividuals, 



