natural wonders and cow breeds.

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Dear prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

There is some discussion between devotees on engaging bulls.

 

I am sharing my observation with nature and some devotees mentality about

keeping cow for only milk and its profitability based on it. Cow kept for

milk only was, is and will never be profitable. It has to be supported with

slaughter.

 

cow and bull make up progeny. So milk is only 50% of discussion. Ox power

has to be 50% of discussion. Till we understand this the issue of cow

protection will always be confusing. As it is valuable to get milk from cows

it is equally valuable to save petro fuel by engaging bulls. Bulls can be

engaged certainly for ploughing, transport. In India it has much more role

than this in agriculture. Bulls are used in oil ghanis i.e. crushing oil

seeds and getting oil. Bulls are engaged in dehusking the grains after they

are harvested. bulls are engaged in drawing water from wells for irrigating

feilds etc. I see in many places and even in devotee farms that bulls are

lying idle and grains are given to mechanised mills for dehusking and

milling. We pay them for that. Devotees transport the grains back and forth

on petro fuel. So where are the bulls engaged.

 

Its a pardigm shift and time management thats required. For eg in our

devotee farms if we want to go some where(nearby) we prefer to use petro

fuels in illusion of saving time and thereby wasting money and idling bulls.

Instead we start 15-20 minutes earlier or even an hour earlier and use bulls

for transport. Till such small things are not put in practice this cow(with

bull) protection will be confusing.

 

Also about illusion of getting this breed of cows and that breed form this

place and that. I heard people and devotees discuss to get breeds like Gir,

tharparkar, Rathi etc etc. because they give more milk. I see a big Krsna's

arrangement in this also and we are trying to disturb it(nature) by this

attempts and so fail.

 

In my observation of India its climate and cow breeds I have noticed that

the cows breeds in dry areas naturally give more milk than cows in wet

areas. I see this as Krsna arrangements. As where there is more water there

is less milk and vise versa. In dry areas cows get dry(not green) fodder and

less water. Then Why they give more milk. Sri Krsna'a arrangements.

 

On the other hand the bulls in wet areas are very strong. For eg in south

india which is overall wet area we find good varities like Killari, Ongle,

Gangayan etc. All these bulls are strong and milk is comparatively less. On

the other hand breed from Rajasthan and Gujarat which are dry part have lot

of milk and bulls are usefull for agriculture but not as strong as the

breeds previously mentioned.

 

In our temple farm we have Tharparkar cows from Rajasthan. Our farm is in

Maharashtra which is different climate than Rajasthan. I saw that the same

cows doesn't give as much milk as they used to in their original habitat.

Also the bulls are not at all suitable for local farming. On other hand

local bulls which look very small and week are quite suitable for local

farming. So the milk yield is not as it was in original place and bulls are

not suitable for this place.

 

So the point being I am not against getting breeds from one place to another

but we should give preferance to local breeds and upgrade them with local

breeds of desirable qualities(not only milk but ox power and other). When we

purchase cow we only talk of their milking and never of ox power.

 

Also when we talk of cow actually we forget the Laxmi ji(wealth) resides in

cow dung and not in milk and ox power. So till we learn to use Dung and not

waste even little bit cow protection will not be economically self

sustainable. So when we discuss cow economics it includes ox power, dung,

milk in preferrence.

 

Your servant

Madan Gopal Das