FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



"After I had gone on this way for a fe\v years, constantly keeping 

 up the quality of my young stock, which I had reared by selecting 

 ktca bulls, I found my herd improving in appearance without '.ny 

 appreciable gain in quality. It was then that I learned that it was 

 not the best-looking bulls that got the best dairy stock, and straight 

 away altered my plans, and bred from nothing but tried bulls. 



"' I cannot forget (said he) one old cow I had in particular. She 

 was of no definable breed, had a brindle color, drooping hindquarters, 

 rfat sides, large capacious belly very wide underneath, thin neck and 

 jaws, with long, flat, broad thighs. Her udder was large but not 

 fleshy and of no particular shape. This cow was never once dry for a 

 period of seven years, when she was killed by lightning. She could 

 produce fifteen pounds of butter per week." 



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