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Concluded from page 1 

 of 10,813 pounds of milk and fi89 pounds 

 of butter fat as a junior two-year-old, 

 and by the records of the daughters 

 of Hillside Torono in Mr. Carpenter's 

 herd. As yet none of these daughters of 

 ! Hillside Torono are old enough for a ma- 

 ture cow record, but the seven that have 

 been tested as two and three-year-olds 

 have averaged 8,887 pounds of milk and 

 482 pounds of butter fat. These records 

 were made under herd conditions that were 

 not at all unusual, the feed and manage- 

 ment given these heifers being only that , 

 which could be given in any good dairy- 

 man's barn. There are seven other daugh- 

 ters of Hillside Torono now on test in the 

 Carpenter herd that promise to at least 

 equal the average of those already tested, 

 six more that have not as yet been bred, 

 and four were sold with the old bull to the 

 government, all of which will be given a 

 chance to enter the Register of Merit ; 

 when they freshen. i 



The dam of Mr. Morey's new herd sire 

 is Girl of Hillside, one of the kind that 

 approximates the ideal to breed from. 

 She is not only one of the best typed cows 

 in the Carpenter herd and a good producer, 

 being now on test with a record of 11,279 ' 

 pounds of milk and 545 pounds of butter ^ 

 fat in 365 days, but she is also a producer \ 

 of producers. Mr. Carpenter has in his ■ 

 herd two full sisters of this young hull that 

 have made official records of 514 and 4.52 , 



pounds of butter fat, and a third sister 



not yet in milk, was sold to the govern- 

 ment. Many successful breeders believe 

 that the dam has the predominating influ- 

 ence on the characteristics of the male off- 

 spring and in selecting a new herd sire pay 

 particular attention to the dam of the 

 animal under consideration. Whether or 

 not this theory holds good in practice Mr 

 Morey has selected a future sire whose 

 maternal backing is good in both type and 

 production. 



Mr. Morey's herd of Jerseys is one of 

 the good herds of pure bred (fairy cattle 

 in this county. While he has not been offi- 

 cially testing regularly, in 1914-1915 he put 

 ten cows in the Jersey Register of Merit 

 with very creditable records, making an 

 average of 7845 pounds of milk and' 492 

 pounds of butter fat. He had three two- 

 year-olds that made records of 341, 355 

 and 372 pounds of butter fat and his two 

 highest producers made 626 and 653 pounds 

 of butter fat at six years of age. Mr. 

 Morey has been using as his herd sire a 

 son of one of these high record cows sired 

 by a son of his other high producer, so in 

 selecting a new herd bull it was necessary 

 that he get an animal backed by high pro- 

 duction to continue the improvement of 

 his herd. The county agent and the exten- 

 sion live stock specialist at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College assisted Mr. 

 Morey in locating a new herd sire. Pogis 

 of Cummington is an excellent individual. 



