Show I 1 BETTER LIVE STOCK YIELDS PRO FIT A J sw X i j Ws V K 41 V 11 in 1 va 1 I 1 1414 X 01 3 wg I 1 I 1 r PUREBRED STALLION HONORABLE by S T III missouri bourl college ot of agriculture use purebred sires Is uie tile slogan by workers at the missouri college of agriculture as a partial reply to stock mens quest questions lins as to how they can make profits on increasingly expensive lanil and labor and stock and effi efficiency clency of the methods used mut must be correspond angly improved if the live stock industry Is to surlie sur surN lve the slogan of the purebred sire 1 Is being sounded by dean F 13 NIu mumford and others of the agricultural experiment station and college in the field fieh and feed lot from the chautauqua platform and on farm to farm trips through various counties for use in these campaigns a redheaded lioa dod poster bulletin lias has been printed that head says says in red type ue purebred sires and beneath this head are brief statements of the careful tests of the experiment station and the common experience ce of I 1 farmers farmer which agree absolutely on oil this point the tation station got audi bigger profits by using u ing a fair purebred mutton ram such aa as any farm sheep ralser aalt er could afford instead of a scrub ram rain they were used on western ewes eaves which were equally good so far as the best judges could tell from such a ewe the fairly good purebred mutton ram got a good lamb which weighed 60 pounds and sold for when three months old but the scrub ram got from a similar ewe a poor lamb which weighed 50 56 pounds and sold tor for when four months old fletcher smart of mo used a good purebred boar on some soine average sows bows and got CO 60 good pigs which reached liml an average weight of pounds and topped the kansas city market at eight months purebred sire means 1 uniformity 2 individual superiority 3 early maturity 4 more alore marketable stock 6 5 more money for your teed feed 6 credit to the owner 7 digger ts scrub sire means 1 lack of uniformity I 1 2 mongrels Mon grels and 3 late maturity 4 poor market demand aless 6 bess money for your feet becj 6 discredit to the owner 7 loss and dissatisfaction action those these sire are some of the llie facts indicated by the poster which explains explain why a 11 survey of the live stock producers shows hows that those who are producing the alio rood good stock are the ones who stay in business when so many others are dropping out from the breeding standpoint the important steps tire are 1 the use uce of tried purebred sires 2 proper feeding in of breeding animals 3 careful c culling of barren and poor breeding females and 4 t replacing culls bilth the best females la in each seasons produce since it costs little or no more caora profits to produce an eight cent steer than it does to produce a five cent steer the profits to be derived from producing lle ile stock on corn belt farms Is limited by the quality of the animals good sires must be secured and the herd must be carefully culled last but not least the marketing problem roust must be carefully handled operation cooperation co with neighbors is often essential if purchases and sales are to be made to the best advantage el X 7 4 nm 4 P FOUR OF FILLY FOALS |