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Dairy Cattle Judging and Selection

W. W. Yapp. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. 324 pp. 1959

State College of Washington, Pullman

ABSTRACT

This book emphasizes that physical form and functional ability of the dairy cow are interrelated and that dairy type is largely the sum total of these two traits. Successful application requires, (a) an intimate knowledge of anatomical parts and their relationship to producing ability, (b) sufficient training and experience to develop concepts, and (c) continued observation and study to preserve and to improve these concepts. Discussion of selection has been generally limited to that portion of the problem involving type characteristics. Most will recognize that this is, indeed, a formidable task and, as the author clearly recognizes, one that is highly subjective and fully dependent on skill in judging. He further recognizes that good cowmen will vary in their evaluation of the importance of individual physical defects but that they see the cow, as a whole, in a consistent manner.