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Show NEED OF GOOD DAIRY SIRES ! Cheapest Investment Farmer Can Make Is Purchase of Pure Bred Bull to Build Up Herd. (By RAT P. SPEER, Minnesota College of Agriculture.) It has been demonstrated again and again that the cheapest investment that can be made by a farmer who is trying to build up the standard of a herd of cattle lies in the purchase of a good pure bred bull. It is not necessary nec-essary to buy sewral high priced females fe-males as a basis fo the average herd, nor is it economical. , A striking, proof of this has been shown on the cattle show circuit at various state fairs last fall. One of many instances will suffice. Recently a prominent state fair judge had to choose between two cows with the same dam, but sired by different bulls, for the female championship of the breed. So strikingly similar in type was each of them to its own sire, though the dam was the same, that there was no trouble in distinguishing between the two. The one that had been produced by the more outstanding outstand-ing sire was so superjor to the one that had been produced by the less superior su-perior bull that there was no trouble about the selection. The principle illustrated is of practical prac-tical value to the farmer who is thinking think-ing of beginning a herd with limited capital, or has a very common herd that he desires to grade up. An average aver-age group of calves will be far superior su-perior to their commonly bred mothers if a good pure bred bull is used. Such a bull can be purchased very reasonably reason-ably if proper care is taken by" the purchaser. |