United States Department Of Agriculture
Published: 2017-11-19
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Excerpt from Dairy Herd Improvement Letter, Vol. 54: December, 1978 Tab1e 1 shows the ranking of States by percentage of usab1e records for 1974 through 1977. For 1974, the percentage ranged from to By 1977, the range was from to severat things need to be said about the percentages. The percentage is ca1cu1ated on fewer than 100 records, and the next highest percentage is The 1ow percentage of usab1e records in severa1 States is probab1y due to the increase in the number of cows that have been put on production testing in the 1ast 2 years. When 1arge numbers of cows are entered on test at the same time, it is very Tike1y that many of the cows are not identified by sire. It wou1d be beneficiat both to dairy farmers and to the research effort for more cows to be identified by sire. 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.