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Show Good Sire and Herdsman Important to Any Dairy Records kept by the Pennsylvania railroad demonstration farm at How ard City, Mich., Indicate a good dairy sire and a competent herdsman are the two most important factors In dairy herd Improvement. The farm changed herdsmen In 1927. Under the former herdsmun, Betsle, a grade Guernsey, produced 262 pounds of butterfnt 1n a year but under the present herdsman la 1927, slip produced pro-duced 450 pounds. The value of a good sire is reflected In the records of Mollle, a two-year-old grade Guernsey, and her mother, also a grade cow. Mollle's mother produced 230 pounds of butterfat lu a year and was sold to the butcher. Mollle, whose father was a pure-bred Guernsey bull, produced 440 pounds of butterfut In 1927. |