Show BENEFITS OBTAINED BETTER SIRES farmer increases products and receives more money crusade launched by department of agriculture will eventually result in reducing cost of living to consumer prepared by the united states department 0 agriculture the definition of the term purebred sires Is written in one word economy there are many definitions many of them learned and long that might be written but the breeding experts ot the united states department of agriculture johen they met to launch the state and national crusade for better sires better stock agreed that the primary meaning of it Is economy the scrub hog requires a certain number of bushels of corn to make pounds of pork the purebred pure bred or high grade hog takes the same number of bushels of corn and makes pounds of pork the purebred pure bred or hlach grade cow makes three gallons of milk out of the same quantity of silage that the scrub cow uses to make a gallon and a half of milk these figures are not meant to be scientifically exact of course but merely to illustrate the principle the result Is that the farm er gets more pounds of salable prod net out of his feed when he uses purebred sires at the bead of bis herds and hocks he gets more money and his family lives better but something else happens when he sells more pounds of a better class of meat or more gallons of rich milk he feeds the alty family better than he did hen he t W kept scrub stock the final result of purebred pure bred sires Is that the fanner makes more money and the city family gets more and better food probably at lower prices the crusade the experts say ally will tend to result in reducing tha cost of living to the consumer without taking the difference out of the pocket of the producer 1 or that reason they point out the city man has a definite money interest in the better sires cru sade while he can hardly be expect ed to put the same amount of effort into it that the live stock breeder should be Is expected to give encouragement and aid to the program when ever the opportunity offers and there will be no lack of opportunity particularly in the smaller cities and tons where the farmers are la close contact with the city business men |