Show Dairy Bulls In the main our dairy bulls bulls' bulls bulls' lack lacle quality This is the result of the farmers preferring cheapness to quality Good bulls bring large sums sums of money and when bulls are purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased at under it may be taken f for r granted that they l have ave very very little a a merit There are comparatively comparative comparative- ly few firms that are are breeding first- first class bulls and this Is due to the fa fact t that the demand for such bulls Is not widespread We hear a great deal more about the supply of high- high class bulls for beef purposes than we wedo wedo wedo do for dairy purposes This should not be be the case In a country like the United States where the the demand for dairy products Is now Immense andIs andis and andIs Is increasing There are many thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dairy localities In this country country country coun coun- try in every everyone one of which should be located a good dairy bull Dairy bulls are frequently bought boughton on their looks only even when quite high priced high priced animals are purchased Their breeding qualities are unknown and least of all the quality of the calves they will produce The University Uni- Uni of Illinois set a good example In the matter when they purchased their Holstein Friesian bull a short time time ago They searched the the herds herds far and near and demanded to see seethe seethe seethe the records not only of the bull and his parents but of all his his' relatives They finally selected one whose mother moth moth- er had been an exceptionally fine whose sire had had a big milk milk- er for a a mother and whose daughters had won prizes for tor milling milking at fairs In addition to this the bull was of good dairy and breed conformation If this bull does not prove a getter a-getter of valuable we may well be sur sur- The chief reason why we vre have so many poor dairy bulls in service In Inthis Inthis inthis this country Is the apathy of the farmers concerning the whole subject If a farmer buys a 3 flee fine dairy bull paying a go good d price for him he finds that few of his neighbors will patronIze patronize patronize patron patron- ize him and will even feel hurt that the owner of such an animal charges five times times' as much for his services as would the owner of f an ordinary bull They frequently claim that the difference difference difference dif dif- ference In quality is not great enough to warrant such a price for service So instead of breeding their best cows to this bull they breed thorn to a scrub or to a beef bull This would be excusable with poor cows but when a man has a cow of more than ordinary milk giving ability she should be mated with the best that can be secured and her calf raised If it proves to be a heifer And just here is another reason why dairy bulls are not more patronized When th the calf turns out to be a bull calf he he brings several dollars more If sired by some beef bull than when sired by a dairy bull for as his mother Is generally not pure bred the bull calf would not be fit to raise for service In some parts of the country groups of farmers have got together and have purchased jointly good dairy bulls for use in the herds of those co co- operating When farmers go into an arrangement of this kind they are certain to use the animal purchased which Is an important point in itself We wish there could be organized thousands of these operative co groups as It would certainly result in a much needed improvement in In the quality of our dairy cows |