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Delay Breeding
After Calving
Delay breeding dairy cows until at least 60 days after calving. -
Keith Huston, associate dairy husbandman at VPI, says research has clearly indicated that the best conception rate is obtained in dairy cows bred at least 60 days after calving. He explains that the cow’s reproductive organs need about two months td recover from the strain trf carrying a calf. When not given enough time to recover, cows often cannot maintain a pregnancy. As a result the cows come back in heat again. "j
Also included on the chart is a list of times to breed for fall freshening, a gestation table for various breeds, and an explanation of the signs of heat. *
Lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States wag 66 degrees below zero at Yellowstone Park, February 9, 1933.
first sent to Utah in f947, where rabbits ruined th< first seed crop; then to. Kansas in 1949, where for two years there was a seed failure. The seed coming from California this year was produced on 136 acres of irrigated land which is just now being brought into cultivation.
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