Show DAIRY acts PROVED SIRE JS BIG DAIRY ASSET quality Q lity of his get cannot be told by their looks r by JAS we LINN extension dairyman an K 8 A C m the lre la is half if the herd hei I 1 besides feeding there is nothing that determines del ermines the production of the herd or cow to as great areiti on an extent as breeding in breeding breedi it la Is important to have baa good cows but regardless of how good or well bred one can only count count an on ant an av average of one calf each eacle pear fear which will be the limit of the individual cows influence on the future herd heed suan sual Is not true of the sire ills ells influence in bettering or lowering the itan standards dards of the future herd Is limited by the number of cows to which he be Is mated the dairy bull bul has two as compared with the beef herd tire sire in that the quality of his get can not be told by their looks and it Is more difficult to keep beep an aged dairy bull if dairymen will realize that the older bulls way may be kept in perfect safety by spending or less ou on that the bull that has proved his worth Is a sure ways way to build a better herd and that these bulls may often be bought at beef prices or at least at reasonable prices more of them will be used and better and more profitable herds will be the result it la Is necessary to list the daughters of these aged bulls to prove their worth the dairy herd improvement association Is doing this abis in the best ind most practical way and hundreds of df bulls will ivill be proved in the next tew few years through this tah method perhaps the one thing that Is doing more inore to encourage the use of proved bulls than anything else la Is the use of the lie bull association where bulls are owned operatively cooperatively co and moved from cne farm to the afie next this to la especially true where the ibe members are bemb members ers of the dairy herd improvement association absolutely germfree germ geft n free milk Is impossibility clean milk should contain neither foreign matter nor bacteria of tiny any kind if milk could beotta be obtained ined and tutored that was entirely tree free of bac terla it would keep indefinitely in view of the fact that absolutely germfree milk Is ia impossible to obtain under practical conditions it Is important to cons consider lder the ways and means of df securing milk that thai Is from healthy cows free of bf foreign matter and which contains only a small amount of bacteria none of which are disease pro the tuberculin test Is used as aa a means of eliminating cows that might pass tuberculosis germs through the milk this test Is prescribed by practically all city ordinances in some eases cases cities require the cows to ba tested or the milk pasteurized other cities insure a doub double V safe product by requiring all ail the milk to come come from tub ercul in tested cows whether it Is pasteurized or not visible dirt in the milk Is not only a source of danger but it indicates carelessness caTe in handling usually such milk contains cont alfis ft a large number of ba bacteria |