| Show 1 WM 4 O Jt r. r J of r b Scientific Breeding Will h Help Reduce Stock Loss a By RUSSELL KEETCH Uintah Oo County Farm rm Agent Arent I f Since began nature has haa beens been s 1 breeding binding plants and animals She Shet t crosses them She subjected them to mysterious forces powerful enough to brIn bring about changes In the germ I stuff tha that t determines their characteristics charl char char- l She put them through w hardships and trials that only the iliJ fit could coul survive Out of these processes pro pro- ceases carried on over million millions GI years myriads of forms forma of living things thing developed For a long lone time after man men came cameI cameon cat on I the scene sane he took what nature gave ave him But being observant and d determined he eventually began beran beganI I to tatter gather seeds from the fields and plant them for his own use and to tol capture young animals and tame l II them This ThIa was more handy than P hunting and It gave rave him a more certain food supply As M he gained experience he became ed with what he got rot from nature am and be began n mating making improvements He picked out the plants that seemed ed to yield the most and to be th the themore e more palatable and increased them gradually discarding the others othet He shrewdly selected the best sal sal- animals mals for mating maUng whenever he could It was as a slow alow crude business bu but but there was plenty of time Long be before I fore the dawn of history these renI genI gen ren- I of picking and choosing resulted in most of the major types type of agricultural plants and domestic domestic domes domes- tic animals animal we have today v There Is L scarcely time tone to congratulate congratulate con con- ourselves on n the achieve achieve- achievement i ment merit of today because became we have t to bustle to produce something bet better ui ter for r tomorrow The task of t th the breeder and beI I the geneticist has becom be be- cone com O never ending Scientific breeding binding with Ith both plants pants and animals has ha become a powerful and an Indispensable tool for lor making malting agriculture more em eB- Ment and more flexible in meeting m meet In new demands and supplying the I n needs of men for food and anel raw materials It has become a major branch of the science of life taking taking tak tak- ing m. Its 4 place beside modem modern chemistry chem them i. i i f. f and medicine as means of I conquering acme seme of the C chief difficulties r r cult es anti and dangers that t beset t man many y J and giving him greater anater abundance I But t it t has hardly y begun to dof do f i w what I it shoud u do in this f tion The a average rage hen in the flocks S f. f of the be United States produces 80 SO rg rr eggs a year Ear There are flocks of well bred birds that produce over p- p c. c r. r j 4 i sue eggs per bird per year JI Aver- Aver Ii fit t t fage butterfat production I L 11 lb Ib rf o per pey cow tow per year read the herds herd un- un dC Jer cow tester Seders supervision avers aver- aver J if s 0 pounds pound per cow per year rear o But Bat at of 4 OO dairy sire ins represent represent- tf t- t f what are considered to b bs the i i ii i erd tda the Country f m n rt I t t I i 1 ii ff J a I x 1 14 I I ed for the U. U S 8 D D. A A only or r less than 10 per cent are listed listed list list- ed as I excellent from the sandpoint sandpoint sandpoint sand- sand point of transmitting high pro pro- Obviously the production of both eggs ggs and dairy products in the United United united Uni uni- ted States could be greatly increased Increased in- in creased with no more hens or no nomore nomore nomore more cows than farmers farmer now have to feed and care cue for In other words costs cats of production could ie e greatly reduced by a wider ap- ap of scientific breeding The basic significance of this that t I ap-I neither egg en consumption nor milk mUk consumption Is what it should be be especially in the tote lower income troupe groups who make mate up so eo large Urge a percentage of the population because because be- be cause ause not enough people can af af- aford ford ord enough eJ eggs or enough milk for or the best beat nutrition Fundamental tal al economic considerations Including In- In the distribution of income I are aro involved here but in any case scientific breeding should be a dy dynamic dynamo dy- dy namo factor In producing the necessities nee nee- of life at less lees coat cat and putting them within the reach of more mesa people |
