Show records measure value of bulls I 1 show some remarkable and conclusive information about dairying by the united states stair 0 of t there seems 0 t o bl be e no end to the records available to provo prove the lie value or of a good dairy bull in increasing the production of a herd the records that alint have been accruing for a number of years in the cow testing when analyzed show allow some acme remarkable rod olid conclusive information pertaining to many angles of dairy pro production dUett 0 n where a bull association ling lina been in connection with will a cow testing association tho the records of tho the cows lire ro a menna means of measuring the true value of tile the bulls in the tion associations association keep records Re corda in tile the vicinity of grove city pa there hero tire lire two bull associations and oue cow testing niso clation tile the bureau of dairying of tile united states deportment Palti nent of agriculture now has tile the yearly records of 18 daughters of these bull association aaion bulls and tile the yearly record of the dam dain of each daughter when all records were figured to it was found that on the average the dams produced pounds of milk a year ind and the daughters pounds the dams dains averaged pounds of butterfat a year and tho the daughters toa pounds pou iida thus tile the daughters produced about 6 per cent more inore milk and about 11 per cent mure more butterfat than their dams vint that percentage 11 lage of gain may soon small mail until it Is realized that tile tho daughters were matched against very good producing owns tile the figures further showed allowed that the lie daughters were by six bulls and that in no case lid did the daughters bring discredit to their heir sire daughters Daught erB surpass darns dams abut would havo have happened says tile the buroni bureau if the 18 dwigh had been sired liy by scrub bulls or by inferior purebred bulls Is not L aird ird to guess tile the fact learned from cow testing association figures that the daughters daught cra of lie acao so bulls surpass their high pr ing dams dains by 5 to 11 per cent pro conclusively clu that tho lite bull association la Is a great success |