Show selection of sire to head the dairy herd the selection of a sire to go with a good herd calls alls for the exercise of a good deal of judgment and the better the herd the more there Is depending upon a right choice all that we know of heredity tells us that he should be pure bred it also says that he should come from as many matiy generations as possible of animals having baying the quality wanted it if we want production du action then we must know where the production Is in other words we need records to make cow testing or dairy herd improvement association records of more use in the selection of serce a was devised and put into operation under the name of herd improvement record this plan has now dow been in operation over two years and has met with a very fa favorable arable reception it applies to purebred pure bred and mixed herds of pure bleds and grales giving more permanence to the records than in ordinary association work it encourages culling which mounts amounts to voluntary the tle registration tr tra tion and supplies the quickest way yet devised for finding out the value of a bull |