Author: J. A. Ruddick

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-16

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781390247008

Excerpt from Cow Testing: With Some Notes on the Sampling and Testing of Milk The plans for the improvement of a dairy herd need not be elaborate or expensive, and should take cognizance of the fact that there are good cows and poor cows, judged by their milk production, in all breeds, and that it does not follow because a cow may have a lengthy pedigree that her performance at the milk pail is up to the mark; that there are scrub pure breds as well as common scrubs.' It will require some moral courage-to discard the expensive pure bred scrub after she has been shown up in her true colours, but that is what should be done. There is only one true standard, and the test must be production. This is not an argument against the pure bred animals as such, but rather an attempt to place performance ahead of pedigree. Ancestry is a most important consideration, but unless the record carries with it some account of production, it lacks the only really important feature, and the man looking for superior animals gets no information from it that is of real value to him. He may have personal knowledge of the strain in question, but that is another matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.