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Show Bc.'cteA m0V to fcnePiogress &.Developmeitt o? Agriculture in. t(ie Qvea.t Uinkah Basin ITh x0. 31. EOOSEVELT. UTAH.JXISE Improvement of the Dairy Herd Better Feeding, Rigid Culling and Intelligent Breeding Are Factors. I L The Bull Association Practice (By WALTER E. ATWOOD) In previous articles the need and advantage of the improvement of our dairy herds have been pointed now. let us consider one of the out, CFPrea ky ik United States Department ct Asrtcnitnre.) ways .a which we may realize such Tkree ways of improving the dairy an improvement. ti'D'I t c tic r feeding, rigid culling, and It has been stated that the bull Intelligent breeding were emphasized Is half the herd which is true in J. CL McDowell, dairy husbandman that each calf has two parcf the United States Department of ents, one of which isonly the herd sire. Agriculture, in a talk at the recent In a herd of cows the calves twenty week at Orono, Maine. will each have a separate dam but Way of Improving. all the calves will have the same "Better feeding of the cows we now sire, so in reality the bull is hall 1 kve," he said, incr ,es average the herd. Now if a poor cow is increases .otal production, and usually increases net profits. Itigid found in the herd there will be csHisg out of low producers increases only one poor calf or one twentieth avenge production, decreases total or five per cent cf one calf crop may be expected to be poor. Howproduction, and nearly always mt profits. The use of better ever, if the herd bull is a poor animal we may expect a greater part Czltf- sires eventually Increases of the calf crop to be inferior. With increases total producthis tion and, I believe I may safety say, thought in mind it is apparent with prefer management always in- that one of the most important ert or: 5 1 jt profits. things in building up a good herd is ."AH to first secure a good herd herd due to Improvement drj be tier breeding tends to Increase sire. to the producer and to A good sire must of a costs to the consumer. It is be a proven animal, thatnecessity is, he 2 c the ways by which the world must be an animal which has at Et become richer without decreasing least a few high producing daughtie i r : . parity of any individual. ters to his credit. If the animal is Hl.-jrsl- : 2, as I see It, the breeders of not a proven individual the dairyhred dairy cattle are among Z I i man is taking a great deal of risk the vrcrLTs greatest benefactors. will for take at least three years it Ti 1,3 a common practice to select to come to production a for calf Cslry I sly on their appearance and animals sired by the bull the if and Gxfr pedigree; The day Is coming vsd 1 dairy bulls .will be selected on prove to be inferior producers the dairyman has wasted three years cry. trance; pedigree, and progeny. ; and still take chances on anTti yrc Action records of a large othermust animal. However, a bull calf cumber cl daughters of a dairy bull from c parents may high producing when ared with the production be to into a good c develop dams expected records their determine the course that of herd sire, as bull provided of value the tre' I'ry certainly 3 til r cords show the producing he -- ns good care. A proven animal will cost a great si l ly cf the cows themselves. deal and as he is just as prone to Record of Dam. "If a t- - has a high producing dam contract disease, become bloated or ha r f transmit high production to injured as a common animal there i': t ' alters, but If he has toalready is too much risk on tothe part of ir: invest in 11 high production every the average farmer cr cf L i first five or ten daughters it such an animal. There in another la a rrrctlcal certainty, not that he factor entering here which we must mry, I . t that he will transmit high not overlook when we consider purpreface i of an average to all his off-T- chasing a proven herd sire and record of the dam of any that is length of service we dtlry tl:: Is a promise,' but the record may expect to get from one animal. number of cf e As a cow will develop from a calf is the fulfillment of that In from two to three years it will u.3 be only a short time till the bull is ID THE WANT ADS related to a number of the cows tj pro-dsntie- a, ea aver-producti- on. de-crcu- r-i pi-clt- -- ie ?v high-produci- ITFTY CZHIS PEE YEAE 1, 1927. ng Paper Has 2200 Subscribers Destroy Weeds by Cultivation Perennial Plant Requires Careful and Persistent of the herd and consequently he becomes useless in building up the Treatment must be he discarded either herd, Eradication of weeds by cultivation or traded to some one else. The beea practiced for ages. Up to the has Bull Association pracu.ee will take present time this method has generalcare of this matter very nicely. ly proved to be the most economical A number of farmers go in and successful. Plowing weeds under covers them together and buy a proven animal a layer of soil that kills most of with each paying a sum in proportion the living material. Later cultivation to the number of cows he expects destroys a large proportion of the services for. If persons outside the seeds that have sprouted. Still further association wish services from the cultivation provides for the germinabull a very exact understanding tion of more of the seeds in the soil should be had as to the price for and at the same time kills the seedsuch service and fees thus collected lings that have started. may be used to defray expenses inSend Up Shoots Often. cident to keeping the animaj.. In Perennial weeds, however, can this manner dairymen in any com- send up shoots as often as they are munity may be enabled to use a destroyed during the season and regood sire at a very low cost but quire a different treatment. Such again we are confronted with the weeds are the worst weed pests in fact that the hull will soon have Colorado and require more careful, to be replaced. This of course in- more persistent and more frequent culvolves additional expense. The tivation. During the plowing of the the the soil the roots that live .in the upper of way frequent replacing bull is avoided is simple. Suppose layers are broken up, and may be there are several communities dragged along the furrow by the plow within reasonable distance from to ground that Is not infested with the each other and each community is plant. When the field Is being hardeveloping the same breed of stock rowed the dragging of root fragments Each of these places decide to fom ' Is even more probable because they an association and secure a ged will be moved to a distance and left herd bull. After the local associa- in loose soil that provlus an excellent tions are formed a general assoc ia place for growth. Work Separately. tion is formed and as scon as an This makes It necessary to work animal begins to be related to the vounger stock he is exchanged for separately land Infested with weeds the animal owned by one of the having roots that can grow from otner associations and these chang- small pieces. In such places consistes may be carried on as long as ent destruction of the tops as soon ttte sires maintain their ability to as they appear will prove the best A knife edge passed just unreproduce. Often a regular circuit remedy. surface der of the soil in a way to the Is fbnned and the animals pass cut off the young shoots; or a duck-fofrom one place to another in a with sharp shovels in cultivator regular order. To illustrate; fotir several tiers, will be fcun-towns, A. B. C. and D are local the mostoverlapping effective of the machine u-associations an exchange of bulls in use In the mechanical destruction may take place as follows: A to of perennial weeds. Charles F. Erg-er- s, B. B to C, C to D and D to A and Deputy Colorado State Entomolothis order carried on at each time for Weed Control. gist a change is made. ot The advantage of. the Bull association practice are self apparent. Each owner may secure the services of the best bulls at a very reasonable price, the move to improve dairy stock will not be confined to a few scattered individuals but will be a sectional move in the right direction, the whole section in' Three-fourth- s which the associations re formed will move forwards at .ce. The formation of bull associations and the purchasing of good proven dairy bulls is an indicator that a community is awakening to the possibilities and is a forerunner of prosperity. of Which are in the Basin i |