Show breeding the dairy cow by professor george B caine head of dairy department united stites states agricultural college in selecting a brood breed of dairy cows there are arc at least three factors that should be considered considered the breed most popular in the th community the market requirements for the product and th tir preference of the breeder community breeding is advantageous for many reasons first the efficient purchase pui chase and use of herd sires when a number ot of men in a locality all have thy the sama brood they can join together in the purchase of a herd sire they have more money to spend so should get a better bull and use him more efficiently second the sale of surplus stock buyers like to go to a community where they know there are a large number of one kind of animals to select from third special breed consignment sales are more easily casily promoted and carried on oil in communities other community endeavors such suan as shows baio lai herd improvement associations excursions and meetings may al ai so be carried on tile the question of markets might be discussed at I 1 I 1 I 1 groat reat ion length th if the breeder i selling m market arket milk where state laws are set e will have to conform to the laws if the tha market purchased milk on a hundred pound bais with a low basic test one brood breed might h be preferred if the market were tv ere a cheese factory factor y or a condensed milk plant paying payin g on a butterfat basis the breed might not mat matter ter if the owner has a separator and sells cream and uses the milk for other livestock then a certain breed may be better belter persona Ierson al preference Pre ferenci the question of personal preference might help when hen one is located in a section where there aro aej two or three breeds already established in such a section there is usually a variety of markets that would purchase milk from any breed bree J of cattle experience has I 1 taught that men will work best i with a breed of cattle they are interested in As shown by the many experiments there is a great deal less difference in production between the breeds than there is between cows of the same breed and of otter ter in the same herd chere are gool and bad cows in all broe broems as no breed has been developed to th taj point that they are genetically pure and that all are good all breeds must be selected this should be selected this should be jono done in two ways first by records of production and second by type tylie the idea that one breed of dairy cattle doss does utilize roughage more advantageously ge ousby than another herd is is erroneous it is commonly thought that holstein cows are more efficient of roughage than jerseys this is not true in n tact fact jerseys are more efficient in in some roughage utilization true the holstein consumes more than the jersey but the table shows she is one third larger which accounts for the greater consumption |