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Dairy Cattle in Denmark. 



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the different Provinces by the of&cers of the Provincial Federa- 

 tions, and the Government gives a grant of :£500 to help to defray 

 the cost.* The influence of the sire is found by comparing the 

 yields of dams with those of their female progeny by the sire. 

 The character of chief interest in a butter-producing country 

 like Denmark is the percentage of fat in the milk. In some cases, 

 such as in Funen, the quantity of milk is also taken into accoiint. 



The following table shows -the influence of five bulls of flie 

 Jutland Breed on the percentage of fat in the milk of their female 

 progeny. It records in the case of each bull the average 

 percentage of fat in the milk of the dams and of their 

 progeny by the bull, the number of progeny being also stated. 

 In the last two colunms are given the calculated amounts of 

 butter yielded by 6,000 lb. of milk, by dams as well as by their 

 daughters by the sire in question. 





Number 







Calculated yield of 



Name of Bull 



of 



Average Percentarje 



butter from 6,000 





Progeny 



of Fat in Milk of 



lb. of milk of 







Daughtf rs 



Dams 





Dams 











lb. 



lb. 



1. Assistent II 



66 



3-87 



3-50 



260 



234 



2. Assistent Lein 



49 



3-84 



3-47 



258 



232 



3, Assistent Aksel 



99 



3-72 



3-28 



250 



218 



4. Assistent Toftegaard 



26 



303 



3-27 



242 



218 



5. Emb Britten 



46 



3-71 



3-36 



250 



224 



It will be seen that these five bulls have influenced the milk of 

 their progeny so as to raise its content of fat from 0.B5 to 0.44 

 per cent, above the percentage of fat in the milk of their dams, 

 so increasing the average butter production by more than 10 

 per cent. The bulls numbered 1, 2 and 3 are brothers, and 4 is 

 a son of 2. These four belong to the prominent bull family 



Assistent " with many members in the Herdbock of Bulls 

 of the JutlaiKl Cattle. 



Many similar records of the influence of related bulls on the 

 yields of their progeny can be extracted from the herd books 

 of Danish dairy cattle. Mr. Moj'keberg has kindly sent me the 



On the Budget for the financial year 1020-21 the following amounts in 

 aid of cattle breeding were included, accoi-ding to the Law of 8th June, 1912, 

 ■as amended 12th Fel»ruarv, 1919 : — 



Prizes at Agricultural Shows £6,000 



Prizes at Provincial Shows ... ... ... ... 1,500 



Prizes for Bulls at State Shows 2,000 



Cattle Breeding Societies 6,000 



Milk Recordine: Societies... ... ... ... ... 6,000 



Competitions for whole Herds ... ... ... ... 500 



Tal)ulating Peoorts from Milk Recording Societies in 

 order to find the influence of Parents on their progeny 500 

 Note. — The two first items are for prizes for all anim'als, so that only 

 part of these sums is available for prizes for cattle. 



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