Show BETTER BULLS ADD PROFITS associations make Pos possible improved sires at but small additional cost to dairyman prep ir d by the united states department of tu two oars ars ug ago go abdull a bull association vas ma D ionized iu in webster county alt aio lis in I 1 I 1 a year later another one in th i 1 I ining counties of wright and doughi i the experience of these two ii irn jib illustrates the tendencies ch thi sti sir li it organizations display A i is given below rom bih it mill be noted that both brought bron glit about a great in the number of bulls need di Isi irr organizing webster couo conn 11 1 I 1 bull for every 17 COINS and t 1 sl ind douglas dougla counties I 1 bull r 19 9 cows but in u each locality r t ii 1 3 got the association into ii ILI u they found 1 bull fur for eer 1 ir I vas us enough A knol li in I 1 i groat great change was in the i lir bull belore the bull as zt i i ere il tile the built wi wh 1 il J ON 0 n il I 1 mire pre alieu at 7 j i ii if A ai j i i liming the buus bulls lansed lin sed alpi dij l ON uld 1 b i the two aSSON Liti us neil vidi it ot on the average t n li it is nearly is as in uh titi li the privately gaii yet the cost was not dot much greater per farm waln an owns sa a bull the value of the bull and the amount of the investment are tho brame but in a operative cooperative co assoria ion flon each man inan pays only a part of the cost the tabulation shows that the investment per farmer that is the average amount that hat each man had to pay fay was about one and a quarter times as much after the organization us fisit lt was before in n webster county and a little ani t as much in the wright douglas but in ili both cases the value of the individual A high producing cow the result of 0 good breeding lull was three and two thirds times as mix h it appears therefore that by a comparatively small sc aall additional investment the members of ft these two associations were able to secure very much more valuable bulls both these missouri associations seem to have considerable influence in raging their members to keela kee purebred pure bred cows the webster county association started with only 2 purebred cows but in 1920 there were no fewer than 93 95 the wright douglas association had no purebred cows at 11 when khen it began but a year later it had 12 a change which though small chows progress and may lead to great results in the future com comparative para tive figures webster wright county duglas dougla Ass AB SocIa ocla tion tion afe B alte at organization juno 1318 1918 oct 1919 number of members member at time etim of starting 21 26 2 totra number of cows cowa it 21 41 number umber of 0 bulls owned by members before organizing 13 1 7 number ot bulls owned by clestion after or 4 COW pr pr r hull U 11 becore ng ing ai n 23 29 cow i bull at aft r IT ing ig 60 60 50 A i F 1 I of ct bulls bulla r ri d u 15 1 members ro r igan izing ta n aloe ot of bulls bulla INV v i j 1 i association Ls ing dinv inv in i it t per farmer r organizing W 71 S 20 if li i ill at per farmer I 1 i organizing 33 is 12 1231 31 P ITI ired cows at time lime siti ol 01 I 1 tig i 2 P r in sired jred cows cowa at pres it 95 13 |