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Show Official Records Made Before Cows Freshen The making of official records begins be-gins before the cows freshen. It Is generally supposed that the condition of the animal at freshening time "determines "de-termines to. a large extent her buUer-fat buUer-fat production while on test,' the claim being made that the stores of body fat. are drawn on to produce milk fat. Some men' sfalo that they have never made big. records on really fat cows. There may be some truth In that assertion as-sertion because real fattening 'of an animal very often necessitates a long dry period., and' there Is the danger of shortening lactation ' periods and Injuring In-juring breeding capacity. 'Evidence has been obtained to show that' a cow well conditioned for freshening will have a higher percentage of butterfut, at least for the first few weeks after freshening. |