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Show Thai's some bull! HSU to 'Ultimate' Breeders Service in Madison, Madi-son, Wisconsin, sales of his semen exceeded those of any other bull in the ABS barn by 1970. In the last eight years he has sired over 200, -000 calves. His daughters now represent nearly one percent of all the milking cows (11,000,000) in the United States. Dr. Hill points improvement records have established that these daughters daugh-ters ; produce significantly more milk than their herd-mates. herd-mates. In addition, thousands thou-sands of his granddaughters are in production and he has exerted a significant leavening leaven-ing effect through his sons and grandsons, several of whom have become outstanding outstand-ing proven sires in their own rights. In a 1977 study personnel of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute found that the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station had provided 19 bulls to major artifical insemination insemina-tion centers. K. W. Hill, professor of plant sciences . and former director of the UAES at Utah State Univer-sty, Univer-sty, points out in a recent Utah Science article that this achievement surpasses all other experiment stations in the nation. Furthermore, he says the average predicted differences (increase above contemporary herdmates) of these sires were higher than those for sires from any other Holstein breeders in the country. As an outstanding exam pie Dr. Hill points to the "Ultimate" "Ul-timate" bull bred at UAES. The results of combiningtwo superior blood lines the Ivanhoe and the Skylark was a bull calf born Novem -ber 14, 1964. By chance, but prophetically, he was named, "Ultimate" (UTAG Ivanhoe Ultimate 1477-381). 1477-381). from the day of his birth the station started turning down offers to purchase pur-chase him, or even a part interest in him, for several sever-al thousand dollars. Placed in the artificial insemination in-semination stud of American |