Archive image from page 44 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 BREEDING FOR MILK. 9 ordinary milkers, that all we can expect to attain in that respect by crossing tliem is to maintain, and not sacrifice, their milkinf? properties. \'ith dairy-farmers, milk must always be a matter of the first importance. Where cheese and butter making are carried on, both quantity and quality of milk are required; but where the milk trade is the opening toward which farmers devote their energies, quantity is of mor
Archive image from page 44 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 BREEDING FOR MILK. 9 ordinary milkers, that all we can expect to attain in that respect by crossing tliem is to maintain, and not sacrifice, their milkinf? properties. \'ith dairy-farmers, milk must always be a matter of the first importance. Where cheese and butter making are carried on, both quantity and quality of milk are required; but where the milk trade is the opening toward which farmers devote their energies, quantity is of more moment than quality. Cows may be bred up to either of these objectSj and the method of feeding influences them also. The breeding for milk seems to be opposed to the breeding for fattening and for early ma- turity, and these two latter qualities are more artificial than the first. A large and long-sus- tained flow of milk is the result of domestication, and of selection of animals to breed from whose milking powers have become hereditary; and the conditions under which our dairy-cows exist have given permanence of character to what was at flrst only an unusual development of a natural func- tion. In crossing two breeds of animals together, one of which is celebrated for meat and the other for milk, the properties of both are commonly found in a high degree in the offspring; but a real difticulty is generally found when we try to maintain this double character in the next generation—the second generation of the cross is commonly found to throw back sijeoially toward one or other of the two properties which were combined in the first. But as highly developed milking properties, early maturity, and ajititude to fatten are all more or less the result of artificial treatment and breeding, it will folh)w that they ought, without very great difliculty, to be successfully combined in the same animal; and the way to attain this desired end is to make an intelligent use of the princi
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