iiny 1914 



THE CiARDEN AND FIELD. 



nrc kept .sv.stetuatically. If at any 

 time the dairy herd has to he 

 disposed of, tlio value of milk re- 

 cords will then heeome manifest. 

 l\\ hciuji able to produce evidcucc 

 that the herd has been systemati- 

 callv built u]) on sound lines, a 

 nvuch higher i)riee can he obtained 

 for their produce ; while the bulls 

 bred also command hig-her prices 



when evidence is foirthcominp las to 

 the milking; properties of the dam. 

 Uiifortunatelv cows iiossts-siiipj the 

 best outward appearance and 

 ahowvard nierit are very often the 

 least profitable. 



— Not Understood. — 



Some farmers are of opinion tha,t 

 the Keeping of milk records is 



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more of a competition ljet\\^n dif- 

 ferent herds and individual cows 

 but this is not so. What is want- 

 ed is not a record m^ilk yield, but 

 a record of the milk yield, for a 

 succession of years. It is imprac- 

 ticable to keep milk records where 

 calves are allowed to run with 

 their mothers, and as soon as this 

 imdesiraljle i)ractice is done away 

 with in dairy herds the better it 

 will be for the dairy farmer. Only 

 the heifers bred from cows possess- 

 in "ood milk records should ulti- 

 mately be introduced into the herd. 

 If this be done constantly for a 

 number of years the herd will 

 reach an aiipre^iably hig-her stan- 

 dard of milk production. Apart 

 from the benefits of breeding from 

 milk-record cows, it is equally im- 

 portant to use a milk-record bull 

 and to know that he is descended 

 from a heavy milk strain. . 



Too often the big, fat, bony cow 

 is pointed out as being a " grand 

 cow from which to breed a bull." 

 This, in spite of the fact that the 

 person making the assertion knows 

 that the animal is no milker what- 

 ever, but simply because it is a 

 " very big animaJ," and a bull 

 calf from it would be " just the 

 thing." One should not forget 

 that " like tends to beget like." 



Another advantage of the record 

 sheet is that it is a good index 

 of the health of the cows from day 

 to day. By this means cases of 

 illness can be detected in their 

 early stages, and prompt measures 

 to deal with them. Further, it 

 acts as a check on irregularity or 

 carelessness in the feeding of cows. 

 As a check on carelessness in milk- 

 ing alone, it is worth more than 

 all the trouble involved. 



There are one or two different 

 methods of keeping milk records. 

 In some cases it is the custom to 

 weigh the milk every morning and 

 evening, but in others it is weigh- 

 ed only once a week, once in two 

 weeks, once in three weeks, or 

 monthly, and sometimes, in Ame- 

 rica, once in every six months, 

 and the aggregate in all but the 

 first case is arrived at on the 

 law of averages. 



Naturally the daily weighings 

 are the most correct, and as an 

 example of this I give the result of 

 an experiment recently carried out 

 in England to determine the differ- 

 ence between the various ways of 

 taking the recorvs. Twenty-eight 

 cows were tested, and taking the 

 a' gregate — by daily weighings — it 

 amoimted to 21,339.4 gallons ; by 

 weekly, to 21,329.9 gallons ; by 

 fortnightly, to 21,143.8 gallons ; 

 and by tri-weekly to 20.803 gal- 



