As the improved stock increase they will be placed with interested farmers and a certain amount of oversight maintained so that they can form the nuclei of fresh herds.
By steadily working on improved stock, development can be carried to the point where the local breed is practically eliminated, resulting in a high grade stock,' producing rich milk in abundant quantity. At! present foreign residents in Chéngta. take the larger proportion of the milk produced, but there is growing demand among Chinese for fresh milk and dairy products.
In west China ordinary Chinese cow that gives from ten to twenty cups of milk per day, say from three to five quarts, for six months in the year, is considered very good. Such cows, combined with improved and_pedigree stock, can be made to produce new stock' capable of developing a milk yield, at the lowest estimate, double and treble that of the original cow, and in the better} results, at a conservative estimate, bringing the yield up to and over twenty-five quarts per day, Added to' which it may ibe reasonably] claimed that the milk will be richer! and the milking period much Jongep} than before. an even day. Year by year this fast is kept very religiously by the mixed population on the border. generally lasts 16 years, or eight of which no visitors go near the temple, and on eight of which a friendly call may be made. The fast ends with the close of the that is, the earth.
For the past month, walking round the hills singing "o-ma-ni-pad-meshum." This ends with the close of the fast and all get back to work again. But the ioniis go on all the time.
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