How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically appliedHazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
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How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
Cattle -- Judging; Cows; Dairy cattle
It is not claimed for any of the tables herewith presented, that they
show absolutely the value of any cow to any farmer, but only that they
are relatively correct. Every man who consults them, must make his own
adjustments as to cost and receipts on any cow he owns. It is clear, that
adding a very little to the cost of keeping, and deducting a very little
from the price of butter, will show that any 200 pound butter cow brings
her owner in debt, each year. Again, there are probably hundreds of cows
kept for the dairy, that will not make two hundred pounds of butter in
one year on the same feed Jersey Belle of Scituate, had when she made
seven hundred and five pounds of butter in one year. It may be said
that no allowance is made for any accidents to which a cow is liable—to
abort, to have a calf die at birth, to injury, &c., and the thought is
present that the loss on the poorer animal is not so much, in that case,
as on the better; but the better is no more liable to such a case, and
the loss is nearly the same proportionally. But it is still true, that
the nearer to absolute worthlessness animals are, the less the loss,
relatively and absolutely, their owner suffers in their injury. Better
remember, however, that “blessed be nothing” is not the ejaculation of
the healthful, the enterprising, and the successful, but of desperate
disease, incapacity, or idleness.
Table E.
Showing the value of the progeny of a herd of 32 cows, that each make
300 pounds of butter annually, at the expiration of ten years, together
with the value of the butter the progeny will have made during the ten
years. Also showing the same on a herd of 32 cows, each making 200 pounds
of butter annually. No account is taken of the bull calves, for they are
worth nothing. No one can afford to use a bull, however good, if one is
to be had that is any better.
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