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Show VALUE OF PURE-BRED SIRES V Prof. E. H. Fraaer of Illinois Experiment Experi-ment Station Explains This Feature of Dairying. The value of a good bull in the dairy herd Is something that dairy farmers are now giving more attention to. ITof. K. H. leaser of the Illinois experiment station has made this feature fea-ture of farm dnlrylng a atudy, and explains ex-plains Its benefits In this way: "If. for example, the good pure bred sire Improves Im-proves the milking capacity of his daughters by only one and one half pounds of milk at a milking, above the production of their dams, this would mean an increase of 900 pounds of milk for tko ten months or 300 daya during w hlch the ordinary cowt should give milk; they would alao be much more persistent milkers; that is. would give milk for a longer time in the year, and would regain their flow of milk better after an unavoidable shortage o? feed as In a summer drought. Bucb daughters may certainly be credited on the averago with 1.000 pounde more milk per year than their dama produced. pro-duced. At the low estimate of one dollar dol-lar per 100 pounds this extra amount of milk would be worth flO per year. The average cow is a good producer for at least six years, or until she gets eight years old. Each daughter having a purebred sire will, therefore, earn $60 more money in her lifetime because be-cause of the good qualities of her sire. It will on the average be four years after purchasing the sire before bli first daughters will have finished thelf first lactation period and brought In the first extra (10. Klgbt dollars and twenty three cents kept at compound Interest for these four years at five per cent, will equal $10, so a daughter's daugh-ter's Improvement or Increase of Income In-come the first year la worth $8.23 at the time her sire Is purchased." |