OCR Text |
Show GAIN FROM PUREBRED SIRES Weil-Bred Yearling Steers Outweigh Three-Year-Olds in Nevada Feed Cost Is Same. "My steers as yearlings go over the scales at from twelve hundred to twelve and a quarter. The ordinary scrub steers go out of here as three-year-olds weighing from eight to nine hundred." With this comment in a letter to the United States Department of Agriculture, a stockman in Elko county, New, points out the benefits which he has derived from the use of purebred sires. "In my opinion," he adds, "even in this country everyone should breed some purebred strain. Nevertheless the scrub bull dominates even in the face of facts aud figures. The averace ranchman does not take into consideration consider-ation that it costs no more to produce a good animal than it does to produce a scrub, and the purebred is cheaper in the long run." |