Show THE BIGHT RIGHT BULL FOR YOUR DIARY HERD selection of a sire can make success or failure of 0 your attempts to make dairying profitable it Is said that mo moving ying picture stars are assisted in their journey along the road to fame by well paid pub lacity agents without any such artificial aid the bull has become famous in the public mind first a well known tobacco manufacturer named his product after the bull and dotted the landscape with billboards depicting a magnificent animal challenging the world in recent years the expression throwing the bull and other ver of the same slang have been ad ded to our rapidly growing lary iary of up to the minute phrases in dairying the bull is a te u factor so much so that the success or failure ot of a herd may easily rest test on the proper selet clon of a sire experiments have shown that a purebred pure bred bull when serviced with scrub cows will produce daughters whose milk production will exceed that of their mothers by one third to one halt half there are countless rec at experiment stations sta tlona to prove this second generation cows from the same or equally high grade sires will likewise show big increases in creasea in milk production in selecting a bull be sure to look antol his parentage remember it is the blood line that counts tor for every thing do not be deceived by the fact that his mother has a big milk record she may be an exception in a herd of cows from the same sire whose average production la Is low experience shows that a dam will transmit the characteristics of her family not alone of herself so if possible know the record of the bull s ancestors for at least two gener allons back according to a well known law one halt half of the characteristics of an animal or human being come from the male and the other halt half frolin the female but in discussing these char acte keep in mind that they are an accumulation from many ances tors in other words they are family not individual traits therefore when you use one bull in a herd which is usually the case and he is mated with all the cows one halt of the characteristics come from the sire in other words the bull is halt the herd tor for better or for worse we have in mind the record of 0 one bull which had a very good pedigree but most of the daughters from this bull were failures they averaged nearly 1500 pounds of milk and 70 pounds of butterfat a year lesa less than their mothers think of 0 the lose loss that meant to the owner of the herd as the cost of feeding milking and mar was the same in L the last twenty years we have seen the cooperative bull association movement successfully introduced in this country the idea Is borrowed from europe A group of farmers or dairymen get together and form an association tor for the purpose of buy ing and maintaining a pure bred bull in this way owners of small herds who could not possibly afford a good bull have the advantage of the beat best frequently a number of groups are organized adjoining each other tt if there are 3 groups tor for that many bulls are purchased the general plan is to have about 60 50 to 75 cows served in each group then to prevent im breeding the sires are moved from one group to another every two years there is no estimating the bene tits fits that have accrued to the d dairy airy industry as a whole by the introduce Intro duc tion of cooperative bull associations but they undoubtedly have halve dame done a great deal to put us abreast of the times another advantage of the cooper active buying Is that you can afford to keep the bulls only during th their ir best years it is true that the young sire can begin service shortly after he is one year yeat old but his best per iod la is between the ages of two and f five ive years when past eight years the majoT majority Ity are slow and uncertain copyright 1930 by dr L D le gear V S st louis mo UNCLE SAM SAYS last year tor for the first time in at least ten years the farm population of the con country nt ry has increased instead of diminishing geese can be rat raised sed at a profit on small farms provided there is plenty of grass and a natural water supply |