Abstract

No country can take wiser action in the interests of the health and stamina of its people than to ensure that its children do not suffer for want of milk. This is just what our Governments are making frantic efforts to do, to ensure that our children do not want for milk. But so far all their measures are concerned only with improving the breed of our cattle, by providing more and better breeding bulls, artificial insemination, etc. But all seem to ignore the fact that the effect of better sires can easily be nullified by poor feeding. The improvement in the calves produced can be maintained only if they are fed with nutritious feeds and fodder in larger quantities than we have been finding it possible to give their mothers.

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