Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-25


and distended in all proportions, bat
collapses after the milk has bsen
taken from it in such . way that it
has much the same appsar.nos as q
dis1rag. Then. when she returns to-
her food the udder at once begins to
expand, being flied with milk mailing,
nutrients and 10 again ready to empty
its great contents at another milldngi
hour. /,
Now. after one has started the
dairy herd he should bear in mind
that the great problem which presents
itself is the one of building up and
lettering the herd 1T all times in.
stead of producing animals that are;
less profitable or poorer in their con-
formation than theh mothers. There
is only one way 70 bring about -;
provement and that IL by the careful
selection Of sires and by properly.
raising the Offspring BY feeding and
caring for them with tho best possible
methods It is never advisable to use
Q gr1de or . scrub sire no matter
whether the COWS DO pure In their;
breeding or only grades. Tue Il il
that many grade bulls are a. good In
dividually or look to one as being as
good as any pure bred sire, and In
many Instances 1t is true that many
grade bulls can be found that, speak
Ing from the standpoint Of Individual.
ity, are superior to the large ma
jority Of the pure bred bulls obtain
able However. one is always uncer-
tain as to the outcome Of his breed
ing operations when using = sire
whose pedigree Is not known. Il IL
not enough to know tho character OF
the sire and dam Of the bull ct the
head OF the herd It may be and often-
times Is the case That grade bull
may have a most excellent mother
and be well sired and still the results,
Of his use be tha greatest Of disap-;
podntment due to the Law Of atayfemi
or reversion, which means simply
that the offspring may trace back
through the sire and dam. grand siresi
and grand dams, often boek several
generations, to sono animal that was
the most ueritab3esscr1h and. comse-
quent1y, tha' offspring would be much
poorer than any Of the other ances-
tors. An Illustration Of this y that
Aberdeen Angus cows. pure In their!
breeding. sometimes. have red c2lves.i
This is due undoubtedly to tho facti
that the Aberdeen Angus breed Of cat-l
tie originated scores OF years ago
from q foundation Of rod animal8r and
although at the present time the
- Nh ~
are Jet black, with scarce1ya whites
spot on them, SOMA Of tho calves ara
born red.
In addition to the pedigree tha4 In;
dicates large production in III thomai;
ternal ancestry, The Individuality OF
the bull must be>of' tho Upe desired
in the offsprinE. He must give indil
cations Of prsDotsnoy and masealanityj
have q ss1cng eunastAelm,- eaD0elty.i
clxculs4eEy syum, neEv0oGf tsmUora!
meat q Aaypus1t1u0. I'D de inatca4
tons az udl11se a1ld5s dssa1tbs1saur
~ seaDc1ouu. e eoW1 TootMuc2 q!
tsnt,sa; can asver-bs givsnfto ths -
Dsetang Of uhee hGud. oe The AQ anG
tho fact that 20 mnc4f carllaasaess 1oo
in the past bsen used on the dairy
farm In this particular rogzr1s1s tho
reason why dairy herds. at tho present
time do not produce moro largely en-
the average and more PROBABLY than
they do. This h we'll illustrated byl
the fact that In the ne4ghborhooA OF
the very best breeders az bred dairy
cattle we find the best farm dairy
herds In the world due to the fact