Show 1 1 y ms T COWS FUTURE IN HER HEIFER DAYS development then of high importance well grown heifers heffers can act their age when they join the milking herd and start to pay profits S 11 II work of the new york state college ollege Cl of agriculture ri cites the example of tidy abow a cow used in the protein ex experiment herd at the college bought four years ego ago as a five year old tidy he says was thin and had never had her full growth the first year her high dayta days milking was 50 pounds of milk she was fed well during the first dry period and in other dry periods so that she gained about pounds in weight the second year her high days milking was CO 60 pounds andt and this year as a itne year old her high days lay s milking was 00 pounds eidys case shows that it Is important to develop heifers heffers when they are young it if real cows are desired when they freshen the first four years in the experimental herd should have been eidys best years if slie she had been well grown and fully developed mr work points out |