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the get of an average bull will repay the 15 1. or 20Z. that may 
have to be laid out on his original cost over and above the 
price, say 10Z., of the mongrel that we urge he should replace. 
Any cow-keeper who has once got a reputation for using 
nothing but well-bred and well-selected sires, will find little 
difficulty in selling his calves on a contract that will repay 
the cost with 100 per cent, interest. Many of those who are 
noted for the deep-milking cows they keep (amongst them 
Messrs. Hobbs, of Kelmscott, and Messrs. Robinson, of Iford, 
Lewes), have such contracts at two guineas, or over, for each 
male calf out of their non-pedigree cows by pedigree bulls. 
Store Heifer out of a very bony Milch Cow by a pure-bred Aberdeen Bull. 
Others say that where a purely “ beef ” bull is used on 
commercial cows, the calf is so large that difficulty arises at 
calving. There is some little truth perhaps in this objection, 
but obviously, in agriculture as in every other occupation under 
the sun, few improvements can be brought about without 
taking some little extra risk. This trouble, however, will be 
amply repaid to every cow-keeper who sells all his calves as 
feeding stores if, as all such should, he uses a hull of any pure 
heef breed. 
On the other hand, many cow-keepers tell us that where a 
sire of quality is used, the sucking calf is small and so sells 
