Show 14 0 1 41 1 4 BE SURE OF BULLS VALUE AS BREEDER i dairymen often too quick to condemn him turning good purebred pure bred bulls into beef before their actual value as breed ers has been shown Is one of the most wasteful dairy daily practices says a bulletin of the university of minnesota the real worth of a dairy bull cannot be determined until his bis daughters have been tested for butterfat production in comparison with their dams too often however before tills this has been done the bull has been killed and all possibility of further service cut off nine such examples have been found in the four years of testing carried on by the east polk county dairy herd improvement as Boc lallon this association has proven nine purebred pure bred sires whose daughters produced more than their dams the increases ranging from 20 to 82 per cent one dairyman owned two of these sires yet not one of the nine remained alive when ft hen their worth was known A recent sire alre to be proved was a purebred pure bred guernsey owned by allford Daug stol of Pos fosston ston seven daughters of this bull all that have been tested so tar far have yearly production records averaging pounds calculated on the basis of maturity the seven dams have records averaging 1 13 87 pounds the average increase cf daughters over dams in yearly butterfat production Is pounds or sn on increase of 82 per cent nad had this bull been saved until the above records were available ne he won would id not only have hare been worth a good big price but could have helped other dairymen improve their herds |