Show buying at dispersion sale sales it is always a time lo 10 learn lesson when hen old established herds are die dis pred ae as it Is then m sen men en what the special aim alm of the individual breeder has been and what type h haa has chiefly been associated with at a dispersion sale purchaser purchasers who are forming new now herds are well advised it they cark fully note the grouping Krou ping of various fam lies flies in the catalogue or follow the tine line of breeding which has chiefly contrib buted in the manufacture of the belt beat specimens in the herd says mr john an english authority the ad vice that can bo be offered to beginners bogin nera li Is to eo go carefully through the herd and mark the beat animals of the dif ferent ages and then go and look out their dams it Is 1 often that the best breeders in a herd are overlooked probably their mater maternal nall duties have taken away something of their natural bloom and stud wealth of and the value of the thes priceless matrons la is unrecognized by the no norrice ace the old oli handa hands on the con are on the alert and pick up th the thi i bargains which the boat bast breeders bro edere usually turn out to be it does not at all follow that the best looking females ara the beat brt dors drs I 1 mean from a bowman showman a point ot of view if it were so breeding would become a certainty like produces like Is the theory b but u t unfortunately f tuna tely it I 1 Is not always c carried out in practice in a Ile hereford reford you would look for a nico nice fre feminine mInine character mild ex presslie eye nicely turned horn horns rather of an turning upturning up curve for choice well sprung ribs good b back bick ick and lengthy quarters roomy body and well udder sh i 3 may be a I 1 trine trifle small and what some would call mean la in her general appe arpe amne and perhaps PIme somewhat what ight I 1 in the fore quarter and neck but if it she he N i I 1 handled you will tint that her touch Is perfo ton that her bide hide will aill fill your band hand and that she ho ie Is covered with au an ample coat of hair or with undeniable evidence of havin having g euch such before the winter daye days require it it such a cow as this Is found in an old established herd and la Is also found to I 1 be the dam of soma some of the plums I 1 among the younger animae the wise man will keep on bidding as long as his purse will permit him present Oj Oil breah break of foot and mouth disease the present epidemic of contagion contagious foot and mouth disease la in ner new eng land was first discovered dio covered near boston where it rapidly spread into many tow towns ns in eastern acid and nto into rhode island and vermont the history of ita its outbreak la a vermon Vernic ii is I 1 a follow follows sixteen cows bought at a sale 61 at acton merl aa were shirled to a station in the towi tow of chester and received on Nov november embr 1 tat whence they were driven to a nearby earby farm arm thirteen of thes thesy cow were eold sold and driven to chester sta eta tion four mile miles distant on november where they were distributed among the farmers who pa them these infected cow cows caused a new outbreak of the disease at each place where they went ent and also la in fectea the highway over which they four of them were driven fifteen miles further to a farm in the town of windham from which in turn tum other tarns farms have become int led ted november 26 two days later the original vermont buyer becoming alarmed dhove uie the diseased dise aped massachusetts cow cows back to his own farm before becom ins ing aware aare of the presence of at the dif dis 1 ease la in his herd however he sold two calves to two parties living near perkinsville Per kinsville in the town of weather weathers held in whose heids heads foot and mouth disease now prevail preval lL two herda herds la in the town of springfield are quarantined on suspicion because of exposure through these Per kInsville cases cages xit N case cases ire now known to exist outside ot of thin this area inasmuch however as a highway highways the feet of at animal animals passing thereon the shoes of pedestrians of visitors to infected farms etc may bear beat the infection particular watch falness and care are called for on the part of all block stock owners Expert rients in steer feeding prof II 11 J wafers waters of the missouri experiment station has been carrying on some very important experiments in the feeding of steer steers these are reported in a recent bulletin of the missouri state hoard board of at agriculture cow pea bay showed up well as a ration the average dally daily gain of a teer steer on the timothy hay bay ration was on the cow pea hay bay ration 2 64 and on the clover hay bay and corn tod fod der ration tula this was the result of the tint first test lasting days the icona test covered days corn ang bang b fed wit he coarse fodder as in the first test the average dally gain wa with timothy hay bay with clover hay 2 91 I 1 with cow pea hay with clover and corn fodder 2 85 with clove and wheat straw prot patera says that the ad dialon of clover hay or cow pea hay to the ration induced better and cheaper gains the steers colsum ing these hays bays 11 hive ive anayis ft ways gone to market in better anish gith alth better coats and with III than kul ua mals fed on the other kinds of couse bodler the use of leguminous hay bay to balance the tb ration proves to be very satisfactory eals factory australla Ai A needs american wheat so go abort short Is the wheat crop of AIM am that inquiry for american wheat Is being bean made |