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aine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1918. 



TABLE X. 

 Inheritance of Conformation. 

 Fore Quarters. 



Mating. 



Character of resulting offspring. 



Sire 





Dam 



Beef 

 Milk 

 Milk 

 Milk 





x Milk 6 Beef, 14 Beef and Milk 



x Beef ! 8 Beef and Milk, 1 Milk and Beef 



x Milk 14 Milk 



x Milk and Beef 3 Milk and Beef, i Milk 



Beef 





x Milk 1 Milk and Beef 



Milk 







Hind Quarters. 



Mating. 



Character of resulting offspring. 



Sire 



Beef 

 Beef 

 Milk 

 Milk 

 Milk 



Fi 



Beef 

 Milk 



Dam 



Milk 



Milk and Beef 



Beef 



Milk 



Milk and 



Milk 



Beef 



1 Beef, 6 Beef and Milk, 11 Milk and Beef • 

 1 Beef and Milk, 1 Milk and Beef 

 1 Beef and Milk, 8 Milk and Beef 

 14 Milk 

 3 Milk, 1 Milk and Beef 



1 Milk 



Most of the Fi offspring are intermediate in type. The. 

 proportion of animals with the beef conformation is quite dif-l 

 ferent for the two regions. In general it would seem that in the: 

 head and shoulder the conformation of these Fi crosses tended! 

 toward the beef type, while in the region of the barrel and hindj 

 quarters the conformation was more like the dairy type. 



ON THE INHERITANCE OF MILK AND BUTTER FAT PRODUCTION. 



Since the results of any study of milk production is of so 1 

 much economic and scientific interest the data on the results for 

 the comoarison of the milk production of 4 Fi crossbred heif- 

 ers are presented. The production of these animals is corrected 

 to its expected maximum by the method previously devised in 

 this laboratory. 



