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Show SAVING BEST HEIFER CALVES Keep Record of Each Individual Cow and Save Offspring of Best Producers Pro-ducers for Herd. (By G. W. BARNES, Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, University of Arizona.) You cannot always buy good cows, but another way to get a good herd together to-gether is by keeping records of the production of each individual cow iD your herd and saving the heifer calves from the larger producers. These Prize-Winning Shorthorn. j calves being from a good registered sire and from selected cows, it will not take many years to build up a first-class first-class herd. You can only know your best cows by continuous weighing and testing of the milk, and keeping records rec-ords of each individual so that some Information may be secured as to the cost of production, which is growing more important as the prices of feed-Btuffs feed-Btuffs and labor advance. |