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Show systematic inipr.ivem.-r.T v." the 'ooller-s'ires 'ooller-s'ires route, s'. e -ialisis of the bureau of animal industry call attention to the most important result of the work-namely, work-namely, the superior types of auiaials which th.se breeders are raising and the substantial market benefits they are deriving. As a typical, example, an Oklahoma stock owner reported to the department that "the difference in price on the market more than pays to keep pure hreds even though we sell no breeding stock." Scores of similar reports show tiiat the benefits are practically the same In all parts of the country. The d-p..rtnient's records, rec-ords, showing the gradual growth of the better-sires movement, appear to be an index to the growing prevalence of good live stock on farms and in marked centers. But before good live stock can he produced in large numbers, the specialists spe-cialists add, there must be a wide ap preeh'tion of ihe utility value of good breeding coupled with the actual use of high-class pure bred sires at Ihe head of the herds and flocks. Th" betler-sires-hetler-sioek campaign tin derlakes to supply this need in an educational way. Any live stock owner who replaces his inferior male breeding animals wi'.li good pure breds is eligible to lake an active part In this work. The department de-partment grants each participant a barn sign, "Pure Bred Sires Inclusive-ly Inclusive-ly I'sed on This Farm," besides furnishing fur-nishing helpful information on the breeding, feeding and care of farm animals. The new report on the progress of the work contains summaries of state and county activities, statistics on number, kind and breeding of animals, announce nts and terse facts on the practical value of improved stock. It contains nine pages and is in niimeo-grujTbeJ niimeo-grujTbeJ (TTin. Copies may be obtained, as long as the supply lasls, from the bureau of animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. I IMPROVEMENT SEEN IN BREEDING STOCK (Prepared by the United States Department S of Agriculture.) :- More than 1,000,000 head of breeding 0 stock on farms in the United Stales . are undergoing systematic Improvement Improve-ment through the use of pure bred . sires, according to a report just Is- t sued by the bureau of animal Inilus- - try, Cuiled Slates Department of Agrl- 1 culture. I'ersoiis participating in this P work at the close of the year lO'Jl I numbered lo,13T exclusive users of V pure bred sires, widely distributed s among -hi state... The department, in :. conjunction with state and counly extension ex-tension workers, is aiding those stock e owners to improve their methods of brooding and feeding, p This organized plan known ns the e betler-sires-better-sloel; campaign lias if resulted in noticeable rivalry among r counties and slates, where agricult ural leaders have used it as a means of beltcraig farm live slock. Ohio, Ken-n Ken-n lucky and Virginia each have more than 11, 000 fanners enrolled In the campaign. cam-paign. Largely through the activities of county extension agents, '10 coun-u coun-u ties in nine stales eaeli have the dis-'' dis-'' tiiien'oii of possessing 10(1 or more live '". slock owners who are using pure bred sires exclusively in all their live slock " breeding epilations. Pulaski counly, Virginia, leads the list villi o02 such II breeders, und.L'nien county, Kentucky, is fecund with 4.7 participants. The '' chief advances in the progress of the wort: during the hist three months of 's IfuM occurred In Kentucky, Vermont 1L' ami Ohio. A conspicuous new center of interest in this Held of live slock :' betterment was in Lee county, Iowa. '' Altogether 'J.",-" additional stock mvn-if 11 aniliatod themselves with the cause during Ihe Hire e-iuonih period. In commieilil-.L' on the l;" n Inlere-st ' which live stock owners are lulling in |