Show INTEREST IN BETTER SIRES Records Show for Purebred Purebreds Has Haa Extended to All AU States and Island Possessions t Pp Prepared red by th the United States State Department of Agriculture With exactly persons enrolled In the Better Jetter Sires Sires Better Better Stock campaign at the close of ot the calendar year rear 1921 1021 records of the United States Department of ot Agriculture show a con tinned Interest In this work which has extended to all states and several several several sev sev- eral Island possessions During the year the number of ot live stock owned b by the persons enrolled Increased from about to The figures Include both male male- and female stock All of ot the males are purebred and the females which may be of varied breeding are bred In all cases to purebred sires It Is noteworthy that 50 per cent of ot all female stock listed In the better sires sixes campaign are purebred This fi figure re Is 1 per cent higher than a year ago The effect of ot the use of purebred purebred pure pure- bred sires In reducing the number of scrub animals on farms Is shown by bythe bythe bythe the small proportion of ot scrubs In herds and flocks headed by purebred males The figure at the end of ot the calendar year 1920 1020 was 21 per cent and for tor 1021 10 19 per cent scrubs In such herds At the request of ot several state extension extension extension ex ex- ex- ex tension workers a special report has been made mude for the last three months of ot 1021 with respect to progress by states Enrollments of at persons agreeing agreeing agreeIng agree agree- ing to put their live stock on a n pure pure- sire bred basis totaled The great t activity Itt during I g the quarter o r was In Ohio Ohio Nebraska coming next neat followed In turn by Washington Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Kentucky and North Dakota In Inthe Inthe Inthe the order named The leading counties during the quarter were HardIn County Ohio with persona person signing enrollment blanks Kittitas County Wash was second with 50 enrollments Belmont County Ohio 49 Grand Forks County County Coun Coun- ty N N. D. D 47 Other active counties J J 00 J h vi t i l. l ci 4 o x c t- t f T 0 x l Castor Pound Registered Horse were Ellis Okla Gallia Ohio and Lewis Wash These results make Hardin County Ohio with a total of enrollments the third highest county in th the United States the first and seco second d being Pulaski County Va and Greenville S. S C. C The widespread Interest in the use of ot purebred sires as a means of ot Improving improving improving im Im- im- im proving live stock Is evident from the number of ot counties where the work has already gone forward Live stock Live stock owners in counties and in addition addition addi addi- tion In the Islands of ot Guam and Porto PortoRico PortoRico PortoRico Rico were participating In the work at the end of ot the calendar year Summary of Resu Rel s In Better Sires Sire Better Stock Campaign October Octo Octo- ber bar 1 1919 to December 31 1921 by States Having More Than 1000 Animals Listed Persons Penona Animals Poultry State State- Enrolled Listed Listed Virginia VirglnIa 1661 11 Nebraska 1000 Ohio South Carolina a s 47 Washington Kentucky Massachusetts Texas 1 I Vermont 96 W 4 3 Connecticut 96 Indiana 87 North Carolina 63 83 1489 31 Oklahoma 73 Florida 72 n Colorado 71 11 2647 Wisconsin 62 2862 West Nest Virginia 62 1734 North J Jakota W 64 49 Minnesota nota sota 63 M 1294 Im 2135 2136 South Dakota 60 ro Ut Utah h 46 45 2114 Montana U 2001 New Mexico 40 1276 Nevada 27 JT MS New York 31 21 1229 1204 I Idaho IT lr 1069 |