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Show Beefing Young Bull Is Not Profitable Practice Don't send the promising purebred bull to the butcher's block before he has had a chance to show, through his daughters, his quality. This Is the warning of the men at the New York state college of agriculture agricul-ture who are encouraging the use of better sires. They say that many times farmers have disposed of young bulls only to find that some of their daughters have developed Into remarkable producers. They cite figures that show on many farms the tendency Is decidedly for the use of young bulls and then to dispose dis-pose of them before their real worth can be learned In a study of 876 purebred bulls It was found that 45 were under nine months of age ; 121 were one year of age; 112 were two years of age; 64 were- three years of age ; 19 were four years of age; IT were five years of age; 5 were six years of age and only 1 -was seven years of age. Ordinarily stock men figure thut a bull must be five years old before much can be known about his first daughters, and seven years must elapse before there is definite knowledge knowl-edge of his breeding qualities. Yet of all the bulls considered In the survey, only 13 were of sufficient age to admit of an estimate of their value. |