Show PRO PROVEN VEN SIRES LOGAN the all absorbing topic today in the dairy industry ot of the united states Is the selection of proven sires for the dairy herds said 0 E reed chief of the bureau ot or dairying washington D C in his address before theor the dalry section ot of tile the ninth annual farmers encampment tuesday morning in forming bull associations among the dairymen the lie small farmer stands as good a chance in developing high productive cows as the richest farmer fanner in fit tile the world ile he is out of competition in proving out sires when lie allies himself with an association asso cation uses his best judgment and keeps records of the results ot of the breeding ns of 0 the herd berd chief reed then told ot of the methods of obtaining proven sires by keeping records that go back for several generations lie ile pointed out the fact libat a sire with live five generations ot of highly productive ancestors would be generally a good investment lie ile said that it was ivaa one ot of tile the greatest problems to the industry to bo be able to find proven sires to keep up the production ot of th eherd ellerd and not cause la a decrease dairymen must give more time and effort than lian ever before to tile lie selection of the sires it the industry is to bo be successful chief reed continued there Is a lot of bunk in fit the purebred business arid and wo we must sort it out we have tailed failed to cull fro lathe lower end of 0 the purebreds this must bs ba done it this specialized part to the dairy business Is going to survive often a high price is paid for a bull on the merits of his daughters records we must go further back than that and find the records of the danis dams of tile the daughters and even their grand dams dains I 1 have nothing against the system but the lack of 0 system in the handling ot of pure bleds chiet chief reed thou then urged the county agents and the extension specialists to be very careful in ili choosing a sire for or dairy herds I ile showed that records speak louder and have more force than the looks of the animal or his pedigree prof J R B fitch ot of the kansas tate late agricultural college conducted an all open discussion during which time lie he said that the blood ot of proved sires should be preserved and that the older sires should be kept in use longer II if A Math mathiesen lesen of the idols e h friesian association showed allowed a chart lie ile presenting the records made by the daughters ot of 76 sires in utah and idaho lie ile pointed out that as the production in the cows it is more difficult to obtain a sire which will maintain or raise the production as so 50 per cent ot of them decrease the high productions |