Show IMPROVE QUALITY OF COUNTY LIVE STOCK Unique and Successful Community Community Community Association in Virginia Specialists Believe There Is Fertile Field for Formation of Similar Clubs Throughout Country- Country Overhead Cost Saved Prepared by the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat of ot Agriculture One of ot the most unique and successful successful success success- ful community breeders' breeders associations of ot the country Is located In n Loudoun county Va It Its Is unusual because Instead instead instead In in- stead of fostering the breeding and improvement of ot a single class of live livestock livestock livestock stock it sponsors the Improvement of ot eight breeds and classes of live stock The excellence of such a plan Is that duplication in work and extra expense are eliminated while the society Is really standardizing the production of purebred live stock within Loudoun county Guernsey and Shorthorn cattle Per- Per cheron horses Berkshire and Duroc Jersey hogs sheep and Rhode Island Red ned and Barred Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth Rock poultry have havo been select- select Purebred Guernsey Bull the Type of Animal That Is Gaining Popularity Because of the Better Sire Stock Campaign ed In public meeting by the farmers and stockmen of that section as ns the dominant breeds of the county The Loudoun County Breeders' Breeders association as as- organized In 1916 1016 by Joint efforts of the county agent a progressive progressive sive banker and a few look forward ing farmers has grown from an nn origInal original inal inn strength of 60 CO to over active members Through Its manager It purchases and sells live stock for its members and has been of marked Influence influence in In- fluence In Improving the character and quality of the county live stock Specialists of the department of agriculture agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag believe that there Is a fertile fertile fertile fer fer- tile field for the formation of similar live stock breeding clubs throughout the United States In some of the leading heading stock-producing stock areas four or orfie five fie or even more individual Individual- breeders breeders' breeders breeders' clubs now exist whereas one general organization saves an un overhead cost and permits of ot the hiring of a paid business manager as in Loudoun n county |