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Show ; AGE FOR BREEDING HEIFERS Opinions on Constantly Recurring Question Differ Considerably Develop Long Milkers. The age at which to breed the heifers Is a constantly recurring question. Opinions differ consider-ibly consider-ibly on this polont, and unfortunately npcrlenee as related by breeders is aot uniform by any means, writes K. E. Kqufman In The Town and Country Coun-try Journal. Tho writer has always tried to rake his opinions conform to tho experience ex-perience and observation, but In the A Weil-Bred Animal. :ase of breeding heifers his views invo always been bucked up by both xperlence and observation. When the heifer Is bred to drop the Jrst calf at the ago of two years, tnd in nearly all instances this can bo done, tho habit of giving milk Is early stimulated, besides the young cow 1 more- tractable, and thus more readily brought under the environment environ-ment of her new condition. With tho first calf dropped at the ago of two years it is better to delay the breeding breed-ing of the second calf for six or eight months, but keep milking her for a year at least, in order to develop de-velop the trait of long and persistent persis-tent milking. After the second calf ibe can be bred regularly every year. If properly fed and handled there is really no danger of stunting the growth or undermining the constitution constitu-tion by early breeding. Kor the dairy eow should begin giving milk as early eJiffl as possible, and the habit of verslstent milking be thoroughly In-' .tilled In the animal. A heifer bred to calve at 24 or 3 years of age will be more difficult to handle, and con-lequently con-lequently not give down her milk so readily, thus bringing' about a tendency ten-dency to shorten the milking period hen all efforts should be In the line of a long period of lactation. Preod the heifers young, 14 to 15 months, except, possibly, in special cases. |