Show Poor Policy to Reduce Quality of Herd Sires With present low milk and butterfat butter-fat prices we hear some talk of using beef bulls on the dairy herd. This Is a practice that Is too often adopted by short-sighted dairymen when the price of their product begins to discourage dis-courage them. The result Inevitably Is that when prices do come back this dairyman has no good young dairy cows coming on to replace the old ones which must be eliminated. He finds himself then in poor position to compete with the dairyman who has continuously built up his herd. A study of any large number of profitable high-producing herds will reveal that this goal has been accomplished accom-plished in most cases by the use of high-class herd sires over a long period peri-od of time. The dairymen who will find themselves the most successful when conditions return to normal are those who are using the best possible pos-sible dairy bulls at the present time. Successful Farming. |