Show Improvement of Dairy Cattle Through the Use Of Good Herd Sires Increase Farm Income Through Better Breeding By Lyman Extension Dairyman Many years an experiment was conducted by the Iowa State college to show the possibility of improving dairy cattle through the use of good sires bred to very native In do the Iowa Experiment station sent a specialist to the Ozark mountains in who located a few scrub heifers which were brought to the Iowa State college and put on a standard ration of These heifers produced approximately pounds of The officials-then crossed these scrub cows on registered bulls and raised the heifers to producing and un the same conditions the cross made practically a pound increase over the previous record nearly pounds These heifers again were crossed on herd sires and the coming into production and fed the same standard reache the productive level ol about pounds of Jn other in two very profitable dairy cows resulted from the breeding of scrub cows to profitable increases The average production of the dairy cow ol the United Slates is only pounds The average production of the dairy cow in the State of Utah is less than yet in the herd improvement associations where cows are enlisted and where good bulls have been used for a number of the average pro is now considerably above pounds It is doubtful that the average Duchesne county cow produces pounds of butterfat per It is estimated by county leaders that it is below this due to lack of breeding and and yet there are a number of good herds established in the country with proper would make very satisfactory Bull Blocs There are now established 26 cooperative bull through the i extension service cooperating ine Farm Security and 19 are in Duchesne The herd sires have been carefully and eight of the bull blocs have been tied into associations in the Neola-Arcadia district jo a rotation plan will provide some eight years breeding lor the dairymen involved in the two Other of will either be formed into associations and will exchange their herd sires at the end of two or three These bulls nave outstanding production records on both the dame and sire's so that the wide use of these cooperative sires should certainly just about duplicate the classic experiment of so many years Service Fee So many dairymen hesitate to pay a service fee of from to and prefer to use the common scrub or the type If the dairymen will but that it only takes from five to six pounds ol fat for the payment of a yearly service fee and resultant producing through a line of good should raise the production level more than 50 pounds they would readily realize that al the present price of this individual cow will bring in a return of approximately per year more as a result of this In If the cow lives as a produced in the herd for five this will mean about more returns through the use of a good animal as a result of this increased and yet when the opposite sire is production goes so the contrast is even greater than here Seek Cooperation The County Agricultural Carl G. and the Farm Security under the direction of Arthur B. Smith and Clair are anxiously wailing for the cooperation of Duchesne county farmers in the of their meetings were held with many of the of the district and the Extension dairyman feels that an excellent beginning has been The use of these cooperative units will increase net returns and assist in raising the family budget for the farm |