The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-07
COMMUNITY BREEDING.
a Straight Business Fropositio7
Buyers Pleased. Sellers PrcEtcd.
BoUCK Il MCCARTHY.
Attorneys for PialA1 fl

BY D. H. GRISWI4-D. Minnesota.
Cooperative breeding. or community
breeding, gives promise of gry:'
achievements in the future. Our g"ra;
dairy industry is carried on large.y IL
the dark. Very few owlrrS of dairy
herds. know with any certainty WhI;
their NERDS are doilig. and whetle:
they are kept at Il profit or a loss few
a tell.
Sires Of no particular breed. imna
ture and utterly worthless. are often
used. If a community will form an
association. study the breeds and care
fully select the breed that they Ike
best and is best suited to their condi.
tons and that they will be willing I"
stand by ever after: h they hav"
laid a sure foundation for future pros
perity. The advantages are far reach
ing and promise great reward, greater,
l believe. than we can conceive of.
This much we krow-that when an
association is formed interest is arous-
ed and a desire for better things is in
spfred. Full blood sireS are bought.
and if a man feels too poor to buy a
good animal alone two or three will so
in together and buy. AS good sires are
bought. exchanges are made. so that Il
choice animal can be kept near the
same locality during the entire period
of his usefulness.
The secretary should be \ live bust
ness man. be in touch with every mem
Der, he should know what stock each
one has and what he desires to have
Through him exchanges are made and
When they have stock to sell he car
ries advertising for the whole associa
ton. thus l%esSening the expense of ad
vertising. He should have the regis
try books of the breed, SO that a pro
spective animal cal be traced and 1t:
worth determined.
When animals are for sale, they arr
reported to the secretary SO that
buyer can find out by him just VIVA
can be bought and where 1t can M
bought, and a buyer will go to such
place when he would not go iron
house to house in the uncertainty o
finding what he wanted. In shippin;
there is also an advantage. as animal
cen be shipped much cheaper in ca
lots than singly.
} Community breeding opens the wa,
for COW testing associations. and the.
begin to weigh and test each COW an
weed out the least profitable ones
> They also begin to test for tubercu
lOSiS. and this work can be don
cheaper when several are working to
/, gether.
Lake Mills. Wis. is noted the worli
:, over for its cattle. Why: Because the.
!, have been working together raisin" on
breed. \ buyer has large numbers t
= pick from. he can buy in large lots. ant
: : he can get what he wants. and he i
r willing to pay the price.
Now. this is business-straight. hon
t est. legitimate business. 1t will give al
uplift to the farmer himself; it vii
bring comforts to his family and edu
E cation to his childyen.
f How It Works In Wisconsin.
n An example of the value of the com
Z; munity working along one line is wei
: illustrated at Lake Mills. Wis. wher,
, the farmers and breeders are devotins
+ their energies to Holstein-F riesian eat
: tie. Over 100000 worth of g1nde Hol
stems are shipped out of Lake MILE
annually. Counting the value OF the
pure breed produced. the total income
2 for stock in that community amounts
t In round numbers to 100000 per year
d When a scrub cow sells from $50 t
! $45 the grade is selling from $50 It
f $50. Twelve-month-old heifers are sell
4 ing as high as $50 apiece. During
n single year from forty to fifty carloads
Of grade Holstein cattle left this com
munity for Mexico. One buyer is re
!, ported to have purchased during TIN
last few years as high as IN head.
In a similar manner Guernseys ar
being pushed at Wausau, Wis. wher'
recently a carload of grade Guernsey
. sold for $50 per head and another car
load for ST. per head.-Professor Otis
Wisconsin.