Show I PURE BRED DAIRY SIRES ARE BEST Prepared by United States Department or Agriculture I Only 25 per cent of the hulls bull ot at the tho head of dairy herds In the tho United States Stales are pure bred yet thousands of pure bred dairy dury bull calves are slaughtered for veal enl every year ear because bu be- I cause there Is no demand for them ns as breeders Undoubtedly some of these calves are inferior und and ought to lie be slaughtered says W. W E. E dairy husbandman of the United States Department of AgrIculture but most of them OIe far ar superIor to the grade grude and scrub sires that are now v being used In many dairy berds Many dalr dairymen men with s small a and me- me size drum herds which often orten contain I poor cows caws say they cannot afford to I own a pure bred dairy dary bull because of the thc high original cost In n reality says Mr r. r er these men cnn can least afford to own an InferIor bull In n a new publication just issued d by bythe bythe the bureau of dairy dahy us Lent Leaf I let No 1 L G-L Pure Bred Dairy Dary Sires Mr Ir er quotes figures obtained ob- ob obI I tamed from flom the thc records S of herd dalry-herd- I Improvement associations In nil all parts of the United Stales Slates that show how rapIdly good a-good dairy sIre can increase I Ithe the pro production of a herd of average I cows Cows in n these herds havn having an I average a yearly eally production of j pounds of mill milk and pounds of butterfat but but- t a year and amid mated teel to purebred sires produced daughters that averaged aver cr aged pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat a gain aln In one gen generation en- en of pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat per cow This increase In butterfat Production ton tion at GO 50 cents a pound Is worth about SOD GU Allowing about 5 5 per cent for the extra feed required for the h higher her production the value alue of thenet the thenet net net gain per pcr daughter due to the purebred pure pure- bred sire would 0 he be about A pure pure- bred bull would uld need to sire only a 0 afew few such daughters to pay for him him- himself self and the yearly early Income would be I Increased by on an amount equal to 45 multiplied by the number of Ids hIs producing pro pro- daughters A copy of the leaflet may be obtained ob- ob mined by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture Washing ton D. D C. C |