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Show j LIVE STOCK I j FACTS j PLAN FOn IMPROVING STOCK Progressiva Firm of Butchers In Ohio lilt on Novel Scheme to BuilJ Up Quality. I"riard by thi t:nltl 5Httis lpartment uf AfrU:uUur ) Uecognlzln that live-stock Improve-I.ici.t Improve-I.ici.t is bonoiielui to the meat trade af v e,l us to producers of animals, 3j u i churn are becoming Interested lu tiie betier-slrea idea. A progressive firm of butchers In a small Ohio city m-cI.h to belter the live stock of that Jo. ij 1 1 1 y by a plan described In the following fol-lowing loiter to the United States Derailment De-railment of Agriculture: "While we have never made a business busi-ness of dealing in purebred live stock," nays the writer, "we have r.lwuys encouraged en-couraged their use. We try to keep a line on well-bred young bulls in our vicinity, and whenever we buy an animal ani-mal for slaughter we use our best efforts ef-forts to have him replaced with some-thig some-thig better. We believe this plan will help to build up tho quality of faille In the neighborhood, to the advantage ad-vantage of both ourselves and the farmers. "When we kill un animal that has an exceptionally good 'dress' we display dis-play the carcass In our window, giving on a card the age, live weight, dressed weight and the percentage of dressed meat. In this way we advertise to producers that they got more live weight and we get more dressed weight from well-bred slock than from Inferior Ktock of the same age. We have demonstrated also the superiority of veal calves from well-bred parents, and have shown that they mean more to the fanner In dollars and cents 1 Iban the olher kind." In commenting on the plan, livestock live-stock specialists In the bureau of animal ani-mal Industry point out that smalltown small-town butchers are lu a pojltlon to help First C:'oss Shorthorn Steer Obtained by Using a Purebred Sire With a Common Cow. In Influencing the quality of future . generations of cattle and hogs that come to their cutting blocks. The plan as presented by the firm of butchers quoted Is in accord with methods of live-stock improvement advised by the department. |