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Show Picking Dairy Bull on Records of Ancestors In selecting a dairy bull on the basis of the records of his ancestors onsideration should be given to the c-omliiions under which fche records vere made, says the United States Department of Agriculture. An in vestigation by the bureau ol dairy industry in-dustry at Bclts'ille, Md., showed that w!un cows were milked and fed three times a day instead of twi -e. confined con-fined in box stalls instead of In Stan chions, fed enough to make them fat instead of kee-iing them in ordinary flesh, and bred to freshen at intervals of 15 months instead of 12, the production pro-duction was increase!.! 50 per cent. A herd improvement association record of 400 pounds of butterfat, if made under ordinary farm conditions, :he bureau says, is equal to an advanced ad-vanced registry or register of merit record of COO pounds. |