Show BE 11 SURE OF BULLS VALUE AS BREEDER au dairymen often too quick to condemn him i turning good pure bred bulls into beef before their actual value as breed i ers has been shown is one of the v most wasteful dairy practiced eh says a iva X bulletin of the university of minnesota tl TI e real worth of a dairy bull cannot be determined until his daugh have been tested for butterfat production in comparison with their dams too often however before this has been done the bull his ii is been killed and all poss ability of further service cu cut off nine such examples have been fo ind in tl e four a 5 ears f testing cair ed on by the fast past polk ciuni county dairy herd improvement a this ass elation has proven nine purebred pure bred sires whose dangl pro deuced more than their dams the in creases ranging from 20 to 82 per cent one dairyman owned two of these sires yet not one of the nine remained alive ahen hen their worth was A recent sire to be proved was a purebred pure bred guernsey owned by tilford haugstul Haug stol f fosston seven daugh of this bull all that I 1 ave been tested so far have i early dearly production records averaging pounds cal cat on the basil basis of maturity the seven senen dams have records averaging pounds the average increase tf cf daughters over dams in yearly but production Is pounds or sn increase of 82 per cent had this bull been saved until the above records were N ere available avii lable he would rol roi only hive been worth a good big price but could have helped other in I 1 rove their herds likes hay as roughage for dairy cow ration wherever reNer silage crops can be grown successfully most f amers have by naw now been converted to the use of s ios los the silo stores a large amount of feed in a small space and h s come to be re carded as the cheapest source of win N in ter succulence occasionally I 1 however a reilly successful farmer is found who has a s lo 10 but Is not using it such a one recently expressed a stron preference trence irence for hay asa roughage hige for all binds kinds of live stock and particularly for dalry cons ills its farm Is well adopted to the grow ng of alfalfa and red clover and h s two bains are filled biti legume hay all the straw being stacked in the barnyard tie he finds that an acre of alfalfa hay will sup ply very nearly as much feed as an aera of corn and it is eisler to grow three acres of alfalfa than one acre of corn ron don t you find that you need sn so cylence to keep the cows lit ea eat was asked I 1 have gone back to roots to meet that need he an chance pure bred bulls of the best hest type and from high producing dams are cheap I 1 loung oung s res carrying the best of dairy blood may be had for as I 1 atle as 75 7 chere three or four farmers club to gether to secure the service of such an animal the cost Is almost neg yet the influence on the herd Is tremendous in lowering prediction pro prod diction costs says the michigan farmer parmer while the state college better s re truck Is being exhibited at a series of meetings meeting q in six widely scattered counties to urge this act on by dairy farmers there Is no limitations on the mea idea and groups of farmers every where in the state can have the ad vantages of these superior sires at little cost it should be remembered that our outstanding farming estates were ably started by men who made wise investments during some depression new guernsey record rio rhani bella a seven and a half year old guernsey cow ov owned tied by flor ban barn farms mad had son N J has a new state I 1 for butter fat production by accord ing to the announcement of ofa W R rob bers superintendent of advanced reg astry for the new jersey agricultural experiment station she his produced 18 16 4 pounds of ry hlll III and joa pounds of butterfat in cass A mature age tor for one year this new record for butterfat butterf dt production Is 15 7 pounds more than ta tie e for mer record of 1920 2 pounds established last year hy by monarc hs I 1 leal a guern isey sey in the berd of charles D cleve land eatontown Eafon Eaton town tl TI e avenge averige pridu tion of guernsey cows on advanced registry in class A Is 11 10 poun 1 Is of mills milk and 5 8 2 pounds of butterfat watch cows health one sixth of the dairy cows of call fornia viere ere tested for tuberculosis in the first four in nth of the year the tile ill cows teste represented an I 1 in crease of 32 tests over the number for the same in WO 1910 dr J P iverson lepor ed ie ile reports arit rid their heris her Is of f tuberculosis as they realize that I 1 healthy cattle lay the foundation for an I 1 improved unproved dairy and a better and higher higier prices for dairy products |