Gunnison Gazette | 1918-02-08 | Page 3 | To Identify Dairy Cattle

TO IDENTIFY DAIRY CATTLE Difficult to Distinguish Certain Heifers From Certain Cows Few Years After Birth. Every farmer who keeps dairy cattle cat-tle should adopt some scheme for identifying iden-tifying his stock. It is easy to remember remem-ber the cows in a herd by their names, but it is quite another thing to be able to distinguish certain heifers from certain cer-tain cows, two or three years after birth. If one is in daily association with his stock, he might be able to remember that one calf is from this cow, another from that cow, and so on, but if the calves are put away on pasture, pas-ture, the chances are that at the end of a year their ancestry will be forgotten. for-gotten. With breeders of purebreds, it Is strictly essential to be able to trace the ancestry. Registration rules specify spe-cify this, and when a heifer or bull calf is registered, Us markings must be noted not-ed on a card provided for the purpose.