^2Ct2 Cattle Problems. 



cility of the best cows is not an unimportant characteristic 

 to secure by inheritance, where so much handling is neces- 

 sary. In conclusion, it is certain that selection is but 

 little practiced, and that multitudes of inferior cows are 

 used for milking, because the supply of cows of good 

 capacity and form for milk-yield is very much less than 

 the demand. 



It is also evident that the demand for good cows can 

 never be supplied by the present hap-hazard, take-them-as- 

 they-run practice of forming many dairy herds ; and it 

 would be certainly profitable in several ways to introduce 

 improved methods in breeding cows, in consistency with 

 what has already been done in the many improved methods 

 of treating the numerous and various products of the milk 

 that the food and breeding processes in cows necessarily 

 produce. 



