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Show littN SELECTING SIRE FOR DAIRY Breeds Standing at the Front in This Country Are Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey and Ayrshire. In. choosing the sire choose one from any dairy breed which may be preferred. pre-ferred. The straight dairy breeds that stand in the front in this country are the Holstein, Jersey, Ayrshire and Guernsey. There are other good dairy breeds but these are the four oldest and best of all. The choice being made don't change the breed from which the sire is chosen, and exercise jrreat care in choosing the sire. The individual poic of a good dairy sire cannot be given in detail here, but two of these will be mentioned, because they are in a sense, indispensable. indispen-sable. The first is the evidences of much stamina and bodily vigor. The second is, an amplitude of soft skin Splendid Type for Head of Dairy Herd. on the underline In front of the testicles, testi-cles, distinctly traceable milk veins and miniature teats of good size and wide spacing. The performance of the ancestry of the bull should be examined. exam-ined. The more good performers in the upward line of ancestry the better. Good performance on the part of ancestral an-cestral dams means the giving of large quantities of milk rich in quality and ipersistance in milk giving for a long period. The successive sires should be chosen chos-en from the same breed. If chosen from another breed disturbing factors are inevitable. This may not be apparent ap-parent at the first, but it will later. The antagonism likely to result cannot be explained here. By adhering to this line of breeding the improvement should be rapid and continuous at least for several generations, but the improvement will be less noticeable with each succeeding generation. |