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Show IMPROVING THE DAIRY STOCK Ten Commandments Laid Down by University of Wisconsin Expert Discard Unprofitable Animals. Professor Humphrey of the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin gives the following fol-lowing ten commandments for better dairy stock: 1. Treat cows gently and avoid excitement. ex-citement. 2. Be regular in time of milking. 3. Keep stables clean, well-lighted and ventilated. 4. Weigh the milk of each cow at milking time. 5. Get your neighbor to share with you in owning a Babcock milk tester, and test the product of each cow. 6. Discard the animals which have failed at the end of the year to pay for their keep. 7. Bree your cows to a purebred, registered dairy bull from a family having large and profitable production produc-tion of butterfat. 8. Raise well the heifer calves from cows, which for one or more generations genera-tions have made large and profitable production of milk and butterfat. 9. Breed heifers to drop their first oalves at twenty-four to thirty months Df age. Give cows six to eight weeks' rest between lactation periods. 10. Join a dairy cattle breeders' association. as-sociation. It will help you keep posted post-ed and in touch with the best and most modern ways of managing your dairy herd. |