THE FEEDING AND CARE OF BULLS 



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whatever will favor such transmission should be care- 

 fully followed. The transmission of such qualities is 

 influenced more, of course, by inheritance than by the 

 care and general character of the feeding, but both feed- 

 ing and care influence such transmission. 





HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN BULL, SARCASTIC LAD, 23971 

 (By courtesy of the owner, Illinois Experiment Station) 



The truth finds general acceptance that if a female 

 is kept in high flesh beyond a certain limit while being 

 o-rown for the dairy, the tendency will be begotten in 

 the digestive and assimilative system to continue to turn 

 the food into flesh to a greater extent after lactation 

 begins than would be the case had the heifers carried 



