Show PUREBRED PURE BRED DAIRY SIRES ARE BEST prepared by thal united states state de department part ment of agriculture only 25 2 per cent of the bulls nt at the head of dairy herds in tho the united states are arc pure pare bred yet thousands of purebred pure bred dairy bull calves ire are slaughtered tor for vent veal every year because chere Is no demand for them ns as breeders bleeders bre eders undoubtedly some of these calves are inferior stid arid ought to be slaughtered says W n D dairy husbandman of tile the united states Dopart department ment of agriculture but bill most of them tire are far su superior perlor to tile grade and scrub hires blies alint tire now being used in many dairy herds berds AL ilina iny dalry dairymen inen with small and tile me adlum size herds which often contain poor cows say they cannot afford to own onn a purebred pure bred d ary datry bull because of the high orl divil cost in re reality says mr these men can least afford to own ab inferior bull in a now new publication just issued by the bureau of dairy industry as leaflet no IGL IG L purebred pure bred dairy sires mr air quotes figures obtained from tile the records of dairy herd improvement associations in ID all parts of tile united states stales that show how rapidly a good dairy sire can increase the production of a herd of average cows cows in these herds having nn average yearly production of pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat a year and mated to purebred pure bred sires produced daughters that averaged pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat a gain in one generation if bf 2012 po pounds ands of milk nud and pounds of butterfat butter tat per cow this increase in butterfat butler fat production at 50 cents a pound Is worth about CO 00 allowing about 25 per cent for the extra feed required for the higher production the value of the net gain per daughter due to the purebred sire would be about 45 43 A purebred hull bull would need to sire only a few buch daughters to pay for himself and tile the yearly income would be increased by an amount equal to 13 15 multiplied by the number of his producing daughters A copy of the leaflet may be obtained bained by writing to the united states department of agriculture Washl ng ton D 0 |