Show pure bred sires winning friends number of owners participating in ct campaign passes mark alark wre I repard by the united states department 0 f Iry gress in the hotter better hotter botter stock campaign bruchu till nil previous records and the number of live stock owners all pasted tile alio mark during tile JIL arst st three months of 1023 as by 11 report just issued by tile united states department of agriculture A total of 1177 persons wore were enrolled during the three months IK period lifter after having hied filed with tile alio dopart department part ment written agreements it to use purebred sires ex exclusively elusively henceforth thim Is tile huglie st number enrolled enro llod during tiny quarterly period since tile begun began three and one half years ago suites states showing the principal activity in ili tills this means of improving their live stock were Verni vermont ont west virginia ohio virginia kentucky washington nebraska texas and inlaid indiana Ind luna the number of live stock find and poultry listed for improvement during the period totaled moro more than Govoni ment officials who have been in III close touch with tile movement since its beginning three and one half years ago go tire are much gratun d with thu results the continued interest bi being aing shown in the campaign throughout tho coultry cou otry shows tile tho pel permanent nature of the popularity of t ho purebred sire and points to greater possibilities lu ill the future the list of persons who are arc using purebred sires exclusively now totals these live stock breeders bleeders bre eders have placed moro more than head of live stock and poultry on a purebred basis on 01 an average 35 por per cek cent of the female ani animals nials anti and CO 69 per cent of the female poultry kept by these pei are also purebred each year that puke purebred bred sires tire are used by alie thane ae breeders bleeders bre eders therefore greatly increases the total number of purebred tini animals nials in the country I 1 standing of states chances Cha during tile the three months period vermont and west virginia showed the greatest number of enrollments causing somo some changes in ili the relative standing of tile the states fictive active in the work vermont which previously stood seventh in the list and six months ago tenth Is now ileth while west virginia ginia surpassed nine states advancing from seventeenth to eighth place west virglnia where legislation le isolation outlawing scrub sires became becam 0 effective january 1 I enrolled more than three times as ninny many persons during the quarter ns as during all of the 13 previous quarters on roll of honor four new counties two tivo of them in vermont one in im in nebraska appear on the roll of counties having or more persons persona using purebred sires exclusively this brings tho the total to 20 counties rockingham county virginia chas W wampler county agent led for the quarter with new enrollments while miami county ohio 0 M senn county agent advanced in th the county standing from eleventh to fifth place evidence of continued activity during tile the coming cornea comes from I 1 various sources the demand tor for enrollment roll ment blanks blanki Is unprecedented in the history of tho the campaign prom from kentucky which Js la fourth on the list of states comes word to the department through wayland rhoades field agent in animal husbandry that on may 8 3 there will bo be held a better sire salo at which purebred bulls will be put up fit at auction and that officials are planning more things for the future coples copies of the summary of the re suits of the fourteenth quarter of the better sires campaign maya may be had by addressing a request to the bureau of animal industry united states department of agriculture washington D C |