Show DAIRY BULLS VALUE SHOWN BY OFFSPRING farmers are advised not to sell sire until his daughters have been tested C C hayden of the ohio experiment station Is authority for a statement that the dairy bull may be be worth more than in one year to a dairy herd he shows that in the station herd one bull produced daughters averaging pounds more butterfat than their dams it if ten daughters produced milk for six years this the total production of this sire would be worth 2750 inore than that of a bull that produced no increase if butterfat is worth 30 cents a pound since the value of the bull can be determined only by the milk and butter yields of ills his daughters farmers are advised not to sell the dairy sire until his daughters have been tested buyers should not discriminate against an old bull if he has some high producing daughters for his value cannot be determined until he is at least four years old |