Show LIVE CK MUM educational FACTS ABOUT LIVE STOCK it la Is a well known fact that at least DO cent of the bre per breeders bleeders eders of purebred pu re live stock make failures fat lurea theae ore are due to many factors such as high prices of foundation stock expense of high priced feeds expense of keeping animals registered lack of experience and the small demand for purebred pure bred live stock since so BO many make fall ures urea in the purebred pure bred business we would recommend only a few men who inow now bloodlines blood lines have had experience ind unde understand estand the fundamentals of breeding feeding and management to try it advises L V starkey chief of the animal husbandry division of clemson college next let us consider crossbreeding cross breeding the first generation in this system does very nicely but if the fire are kept for breeding purposes they th ey fire are unsatisfactory their offspring ng show lack of uniformity and marked inferiority in many respects now let us consider the scrub scrubs are usually unprofitable they are responsible in a large measure for live stock selling for such auch a low price ce we do not think that they should have a place in southern agriculture all that remains for the mass of livestock live stock producers Is to produce high grades by making use of purebred sires we need a few good breed ers of purebred pure bred live stock so that purebred pure bred sires may be furnished for those interested in raising high grades tile the following definitions taken from types and market classes of live stock by vaughan will help farmers to better understand the breeding end of the alve lovestock stock business A purebred pure bred animal Is a member of a breed arid and la Is registered or eligible to registry in the herd book of that breed A crossbred animal Is one whose sire and dam wore were both pure bred but belonged to different breeds A cross between a poland china boar and a duroc jersey sow produces crossbred pigs A grade animal Is one produced by mating a scrub feanle with a purebred male if this grade as a result of the above cross Is a female and Is in turn mated to a purebred pure bred male of 0 tiro tire same type and preferably of the same breed as its own purebred pure bred pale parent the result will be a grade gradi grade uni animals mills possess from 50 to 75 per cent of f pure breeding A high grade la is one produced aroln a scrub foundation by three or more successive crosses of 0 f purebred pure bred sires of the same typo type an and d ably of the same breed high 11 grades possess per cent or mure more of pure breeding A scrub animal Is one that hears bears no evidence of good breeding ono one without any purebred pure bred ancestors or at most very few and very dista distant ut ones |