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Show SCRUB SIRE NOT PROFITABLE Farmers Advised by Ohio Expert Not 1 to Sal I Head of Herd Until Daughters Been Tested. Can a bull be worth nearly $3,000 In one year in a dairy herd? The animal ani-mal may be worth this much or even piore, according to figures given by Prof. C. C. Hayden of the Ohio experiment experi-ment station. He shows that In the station dairy herd one bull produced daughters averaging av-eraging 153 pounds more butterfat annually an-nually than their dams. If ten daughters daugh-ters produced milk for sir years, the total production of this sire would be yr:-rr'fT':,..,-- ' Purebred Bull. ' worth $2,750 more than that of a bull that produced no increase, if butterfat Is worth 80 cents a pound. Since the value of the bull can be determined only by the milk and butter but-ter yields of his daughters, farmers are advised not to sell the dairy sire until his daughters have been tested. Buyers should not discriminate against an old bull if he has some high-producing daughters, for his value cannot be determined until he is at least four years old. |