Although the expectation of life in humans has been widely investigated and the information obtained about it extensively used by insurance companies and other agencies, there is little information relative to the expected span of life in dairy cattle or other farm animals. Such information on dairy cattle would be useful to the breeder, the buyer and the experimenter, who could then gauge their programs and objectives on something more substantial than guesses.
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Cannon et al. (1939) studied this question.
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