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many do so behave from callousness, carelessness or the 
mistaken notion that their own and feeders’ requirements are 
in total opposition to one another. 
There are, in the six eastern counties alone some 110,000 
milk-producing cows, eighty per cent, of which may be looked 
upon as wanted by their owners for milk production only. 
Possibly some twenty per cent, of these are merely bought in 
with the object of selling out fat when dry and so may be 
ignored, and the economic waste that this practice may entail 
will, through the advancing price of large deep-milking cows, 
be likely to correct itself. The remaining 88,000 cows will 
probably produce some 85,000 marketable calves and it is from 
among these and tens of thousands of similar stock, from all 
over England and from certain parts of Scotland and Wales, 
that we get eventually a very large proportion of our “ stores.” 
Amongst them is a percentage whose want of quality baffles 
description. 
We give here an illustration of one of these from life and 
it suffices to say that she is as narrow as she is shallow. A 
large number of countings on the market has led us to believe 
that such real, though not “rotten,” wasters are produced in 
great quantity from among “ Home-breds.” We have found 
them at the rate of 1:8 in the eastern and south-eastern 
counties. 
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