STOCK. 



AVING briefly glanced at the characteristics of the 

 different breeds, it will not be out of place to say a 

 .few words about breeding and rearing dairy stock. 

 There are three things to be considered : 



1. Selection. 



2. Coupling. 



3. Care. 



SELECTION. 



By selection, we mean not only the selection of the 

 breed adapted to the line of dairying pursued, but the 

 selection of the individual animals to breed and rear ani- 

 mals from, and especially the bull to be used on the herd. 

 This male should have a good pedigree that is, be the 

 lineal descendant of animals known to possess the qual- 

 ities desired in the future herd. This is all-important; 

 for however well-formed and comely he may be, he will 

 transmit the qualities of his ancestors as surely as like 

 begets like. This fact can never be safely ignored. Milk 

 and butter qualities, in a dairy herd, must take prece- 

 dence over beauty of form, however desirable the latter 

 may be. The cows to rear stock from should be selected, 

 as far as possible, on the same principle. Pedigree is 



