Part Two — Advanced Registry Feeding 



XIII. Fitting a Cow for An Advanced Registry Test 



THE best preparation for large advanced registry records 

 is in proper breeding. The quickest way to get a herd 

 properly bred is through the influence of the sire. 

 Presumably this article is to be on the care and management 

 and the feeding of cows that are to be tested for advanced 

 registry, but the writer cannot refrain from introducing it 

 with a few words on breeding. There is not much to be 

 said on the feeding of animals about to be tested. The grain 

 mixtures to be recommended are based on a few simple 

 principles that can be put in a few words, and those words 

 will be given a little further along. 



A farmer who is going to test his animals regularly and 

 keep it up, must school himself to the point where he will be 

 willing to pay big money for the head of his herd. No 

 volumes on fitting or on feeding are going to help him or 

 make large records for him on animals that have not been 

 well bred from the start, to give them the constitution and 

 capacity to handle the feed necessary to produce the milk 

 and fat. 



Therefore study the breeding of your herd and the indi- 

 viduals, and study the breeding of those animals that are 

 making the big records all the time. Then the sooner that 

 you get the sire with the right kind of breeding and get the 

 right kind of breeding in the cows to which he can be bred, 

 the sooner the large records will come to your herd. We 

 do not mean by this that feed and care are not important, 

 for they are all important. But first of all let us get the 

 cows and the bull and get to breeding right. 



Then right on top of breeding comes experience. And 

 the only way to get experience in testing is to test. A great 

 many young breeders hesitate to begin testing because they 

 think too much of the expense of it. It is expensive. But 

 the plunge has to be taken sooner or later, and the sooner 

 the better. The easiest time to put an A. R. O. record on a 

 cow is when she is a heifer. Each year makes the require- 

 ment that much higher. Even if the records are low they 

 are always worth more than they cost. It is so much better 

 to sav that this or that cow has an A. R. O. record than to 

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