Show r Show Value of Pure-Bred Pure Sire Results Given of Thir Thirty Thirty- y Year Yeat Breeding Tests With B Beef ef Cattle u Lo by 0 the United d Statu nt or of Agriculture Ten years of t time the th year thirty trig breed with beef beM at Bar Enia-Bar farms Graid Valley hav MO Io m been concluded amid ind time the results I public made available In ln i prInt cI form Corm to tie Time The doi farm farni Which Is for time the purpose of Ing time the profitable results can e by tile the e of pure bred urea bred to common cows was estah by W. W rt n. n Nelson n a public spir lied Since citizen ster im III live stock hIs In 1915 tIle the farms 1 been by br t time Hie trustees of hr liEs I The ilme breeding work the lie on farms farms- l I Is conducted d along sc scientific line lines al nl iii- though conditions such as are found round on tIle tho average Q stock live farm are ad nd here hered to in the time handling of the stock ceding feeding and marketing Public dem have been held annually amid nIH in n a recent years elIs have been boen attend attend- eu el ed b. b by about visitors The lime re reo re- re suits of tile the pro progress 1 SS made In the first are art the basis for Miscellaneous Circular No M 74 I just Issued by th time Ow United States s Department of or lure Foundation Female Stock rh The fhe foundation female stock tock for tin Ulf br breeding work worl consisted of com COLum mon muon red Ird cows cows s showing evidence e c of Shorthorn breeding selected by ly Mr 11 kelson ebson J on n at lit the time J Kansas Narsas asas City stock yams The cows were of fair aim to good qt quality tIft Judged from flom a mm J market standpoint and of Pr good size They were wre from four our OUI to five years old most of them with calf and dry A few lad had calves es at nt side This basis for selection Insured In ha having animals that would br l breed ed The equipment nt and ran nr-ran arrangement oT or the time hiram were were typical of what the then aera a n V- V era e farmer could provide kel Mr Mr Nel elson el- el son son- decided that his st stock ck should have mi-e mi no po b better f feed d or or ot care cave would ba Po possible ih e on ui n any farm farri He lie had a t preference for fOr- roan steers believing ing that the they Poss possessed superior Jor feeding q quail quail- ties Since one method of obtaining the time roan coo color Is to hr breed cc white hite bull bulls to red reet he lie white horn born hulls bulls to use with the time the l' l red fl cows Later rater brec breeding Un work ork howe however hower r ed J. J ninny roan ronn bulls The Time orl original f fe c male stock lEns has been added to torain from rain time to time h h- h by purchase of of of's s similar Jat cows cows- ny Bythe the nib full of 1022 1922 the time breeding stock at nt Sat Bar farms farm farms had increased to m more r than I 1000 hend head bead I j summary of or Conclusions A summary y ary of the conclusions drawn from this study stud by time tile authors of ot- this thI m-cular m Includes s the time following The Time use of pure bred sires of acc accept pt able quality results In successive successive- Jm- Jm pro provement In iLm t the le quality of oJ the time calf r crop as ns shown by bJ conformation anc and market price The greatest single step toward Im lam proved pro quality d with com Om mon noi stock occurs in the first cross cross' Subsequent crosses increase aRe quality and ana market value still more Quality anti and the best market prices are approximately in proportion to the c number of crosses of ot pure purt hl breeding edin After the third or fourth cross the offspring compare very er fn favorably with pure bred stock In conformation and only exceptional good good sir sires can bring about further Improvement ement Steers teem sired by hy pur S pure broil Sill Smil n n-Itar n tam his have ha time the market sixteen out of twenty nf limes 8 and hit hav four I times time he been n Ii the hl lJ t r. t th year ear to Onto date of 01 sale stile on on lh ho time Kansas CIt City j market et for fat yearling he hooves e Cs Farl Early Karly maturity is hE n a conspicuous IP i-c I suit sub t of or cattle beef ern through the time n use e of ut bred pure sll slips s. s Steer Steers raised at Piar nar farms farina no im 11 a mm part of or time the demonstration have Jun-e soul sold consistently t for or about 2 a n r pounds pounds' more than the diP of nf on time the same r market ait and alid HIP period of hl high h prices in lii thiS 1018 for si- si ii hl high h K I liS' liS 5 Di fI a n hundred above e th m market Iet x 1 fl average I Show Show ring re results s tire In I rement I wit with Ii t f a afar far as Indicated cat f by liv time till urr s f bowing of 01 Sni Sni-n-Ilar i In C and h by sales of nf f similar I on orl till the market Ill I he lie non lon shows dt i en ul ny j breeding is 18 n a dominant tor III In Hn 11 production pm of r t s that good genii rip fading and r will not oi return ni bp bl fo f result result- un II p less the lime element Of good breeding i i. i present n t 1 also I o. o In Tn grading J up farm farma th It ity lI of calves aires Is I. In portion In ii time the Individual if f tIme tilt sIres u used I. I hn hence the fill mpr lance of fir hulls P f sp fn o out for or in the time I. I o |