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Show VALUE OF BETTER BREEDING Striking Example of Improvement Obtained Ob-tained by Use of Purebred Sire in Georgia. In support of the "Better Sires-Better Sires-Better Stock" campaign, Milton P. Jnrnagin, animal husbandman of the Georgia State College of Agriculture, has furnished the United States department de-partment of agriculture with the following fol-lowing striking example of improved breeding: At fifteen months of age a heifer from a native scrub cow, sired by a purebred Shorthorn bull, weighed 610 pounds. Its nine-year-old mature dam weighed 605 pounds. Although the heifer was but a half-bred Shorthorn it quickly exceeded its dam in weight because of better breeding. |