On Stall Feeding and Clover Cultivation in Switzerland

size, and the calf falling from her will, just like the mother, remain small and haggard. From this careless procedure—far more than from the nature of the land—arise here and there the miserable types of livestock that one can look at only with pity.

From experience, I know that with better supervision, sufficient nutrition, and especially through the precaution that the calf does not become pregnant before it has completed at least its 24 to 30 months, much larger calves are born in the second generation even from very small types of livestock, which in every way far exceed their parents; and thus, in a few short years, a breed can, depending on the varying care, be improved or diminished by double. I have bought cows of the smaller type in their best years for 18 to 20 Reichsthalers,