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In such a herd, the keeping of records would be 

 indispensable, as these would furnish the basis of price. 

 If sold as cows, the record would show performance, 

 and the individual would know what he was getting. 

 If sold when first coming into milk, the performance of 

 the dam would be some guarantee as to what might 

 be looked for. That cows thus bred would command 

 a high price relatively and find ready sale cannot be 

 questioned. The price obtainable would probably al- 

 most approximate the average paid for pedigreed dairy 

 cows, especially such as are without milk records, and 

 such breeding would solve the problem, perplexing to 

 some breeders of pure-breds, as to v,'hat should be done 

 with the young males. There would be no necessity for 

 growing them, because of an}' pedigree value that they 

 may possess. As soon as such females were come into 

 milk, they would bring profit to the grower until sold, 

 hence the risk in such breeding would be small, indeed. 

 Such females, however, would be far too valuable to 

 purchase for dairies from which they would go to the 

 block at the end of but one period of lactation. 



