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Show VALUE OF PUREBRED HEIFERS Editor of Agricultural Paper Picks Up Prize at Public Sale Possibilities Possibili-ties Unknown. A few years ago a certain editor of an agricultural paper bought a couple of cheap little Jersey heifers at a public sale. Some of the breeders present had a good bit of fun at his expense and they haven't all got over It yet. When these heifers became cows the better one made a record of production excelled by only a few of her age in the country for a month or bo and was then injured. She may be heard of later. The other one produced pro-duced over 10,000 pounds of milk and 480 pounds of fat with her first calf, which was not so bad for a $50 heifer. The fact is that nobody knows very much about the possibilities of purebred pure-bred youngsters. When they are going go-ing cheap it's not a bad plan to pick them up and wait awhile. They may develop Into the basis of a useful herd i x Purebred Jerseys. and they can't lose much money if they don't. More than one herd of purebred cattle has been built on something that didn't look very good to the crowd on sale day. |