Show bull association aid to dairyman means offered to the small owner to secure use of improved sires prepared by the united states department 0 of f agriculture e few dairymen are so situated finan dally that they can afford to purchase chase a really first class clasa purebred pure bred bull for a medium sized or small herd I 1 of dairy cows says J C mcdowell dairy husbandman of tho the united states department of agriculture but every dairyman regardless of tho the size of his herd hard or the condition of hla his pocketbook can well afford to own a share in a high class bull in fact the dairyman with only a few cows from which to obtain an income Is the very ono one who needs a high producing dairy herd he ta Is tile tho man who can least afford tho great losses lint come from carelessness in breed lne uso use of improved sire alre for dairymen in these circumstances tile tho operative cooperative co bull association ass ocla offers a means of securing the uso use of better dairy bulls than could otherwise bo be hod had through tho the system of transferring bulls from farm to farm its as la Is done in a bull association cia tion it Is possible to keep all bulls bulla until their daughters havo have made records and until the records of the dama dains and tho the daughters have baen compared that makes it possible to determine which are tile the good bulls and which ones should be retired from service when tile the census was taken in 1020 only 25 23 per cent of the dairy bulls of tile the united states and 3 per cent of all tile the dairy cattle were purebred pure bred find and there was only one purebred pure puro bred bull to each 23 forms farina that Is not 11 good record for an important dairy coun try to improve this condition the first stop should be to eliminate nil all bulls except the pure bleds tho the next to prove nil all the purebred pure bred bulls through tho the records of their daughters and to eliminate all whose daughters are unsatisfactory tho the bull association Is one means by which these results resul tsmay may be brought about says mr mcdowell what dairymen think the growth of a movement does not always prove its value but in the case of dalry dairy bull associations the continued and almost constant growth since the work began Is at least some indication of what the dairymen think of this method of operative cooperative co breeding in 1010 two years after tile the work began there were 0 associations in 1915 1910 there were 15 associations in 1020 there were in in 30 states ano and lo in 1027 there are associations ciati clat ions ons in 33 states |