Show To Secure the Best Cows Tho practice with regard to the maintenance of dairy herds In this state is varied Somo of our farmers try to breed their own herds saving the calves from tile best cows and thus by a process of indirect selection selec-tion Improve the annualyield of milk 4 1 and butter from year to year Many J of our farmers buy cows as they need them disposing of those that havo proven unprofitable to tho local butcher J butch-er While dairying is a growing industry f in-dustry in Virginia it has not made y 4 as much progress as the legitimate II prices obtainable for milk butter and other dairy foods would seem to warrant war-rant There is an increasing desire j for information along dairy lines and I our farmers are beginning to realize I that they must have better cows and one ot the most certain ways to secure 1 these Is through breeding them themselves them-selves Andrew M Soule Dean Agricultural College of Virginia |