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Show NO PLACE FOR SCRUB BULLS Poor Animals Have Done Much Damage Dam-age to Dairy Interests and Are Worse Than Worthless. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Dull Associations, though few In number, wngu eternal warforo on tho scrub. Tho scrub bull has dono much damage In this country. He Is worso than worthless. He lowers tho production pro-duction of nil futuro gcncrntlons of tho herd ho bends. Ho cannot Increase In-crease milk production oven In n herd of scrubs because, llko them, ho Is n scrub. In a herd of better breeding the damage ho may do Is almost limitless. limit-less. Tho grndo hull la llttlo better because, be-cause, most of his ancestors being scrubs, ho Is certain to transmit scrub Dualities to his offspring. Tho grndo bull may havo tho form and color markings of n purebred, but ho lacks A Purebred Dull That Pays. tho power to transmit with any do-greo do-greo of certainty tho qualities of nny high-producing ancestors ho may have. That herd Is very poor Indeed In which a grndo bull con mako any marked Improvement. Tho registered scrub comes of low-producing low-producing registered ancestors, thcre-foro thcre-foro ho transmits only Inferior qualities quali-ties to his calves. Iteglstratlon Is not enough to gunranteo production. Permanent Per-manent dairy herd Improvement can never coino from tho scrub, tho grndo or tho registered scrub. A constant fight against tho cattlo fever tick has put largo portions of tho southern states Into tho tlck-frco area. Why not Inaugurate a similar light oil over tho United States against scrub sires, ngnlnst tho scrub, tho grade, the registered scrub, ngnlnst scrub sires of every kind? Taking each state, county by county, why not cllmlnnto tho scrub nnd establish scrub-frco areas In every stole? |