The Holly chieftain., 1917-05-04

Z NoN IL tIlc tlillt W slioW NouI pa
triotism and love your country
/ BE sure to be at this meeting and
do your bit. At this time we are
unable to give all of the details OF
the meeting but bills will be circu.
lated the last of the week telling
all of the program. Anyhow, it's
enough to say that your country
needs you-be at the ArmOry next
Tuesday night
selves and by improving their
/ stock, but there is limit: so in
the last analysis, the only excuse
for purebrcd stock is in the inn
/ provement OF the grade herd 1t is
possible, by using good bulls, to
double the output of a good herd
of dairy cattle--to do this with the
same overhead expense, the same
labor, the same cost for feed This
fact makes the breeders of purebred
I cattle both useful and necessary.
Great care should be used in breed
ing, and in my opinion, the most
! important thing is to save the
calves from the proved animals 1t
is impossible to go into the market
and buy, for the reason that you
can only buy what some other man
wants to sell 1t is not necessary
for milk producers in a community
like this to all strive to produce
registered cattle. 1t is well to do so,
but | doubt if it is always possible
/ for the man who is producing mar
ket milk or for everyone who takes
/ it up.
Y You must 1ti deiistn.aa, lass.epc|,
\ that with the ordinary grade cattle,
\ there must be at least one purebred
animal. Great care must be exer-
ciscd in selecting this one purebred
/ bull. When this is done, the pro-
duction is practically up to the
F! purcbred cattle. 1t is poor busi-
ness Judgment not to use the best
! bull possible-not only registered,
1 but with official work on both
sides back of him, then you begin
to get results just that much quick
er. Perhaps the best investment
for community such as this is the
! purchase OF d community bull
! Suppose ten of you men decide YOU
will spend about 500 each f9' a
I registered bull. Suppose you de
eide to invest 81 900 in community
bull. That bull will serve the pur-
pose OF a number of men who are
situated conveniently. Each man,
with a small payment, gets the off
spring of bull worth $1,000 or
more When he secures his heifers
from this kind of an animal, he is
capable of an output that will
bring him an increased profit.
| am sure there is more money to
be made through dairying than
any other kind of farming. Unfor-
tunatey there is only one other
section besides this in the state of
Colorado to which | can call your
attention as proof of this assertion.
About thirty years ago, I lived
north of Denver in Weld county.
which is probably the best agricul-
tural county in this state Their
only thought then was raising
grain. They did not think of rails
ing COWS. About ten years ago, a
few men began to keep dairy cattle
in the vicinity of Ft. Lupton. This
IS now the most prosperous com
munity in the state. The farmers
are out of debt. and they have
made a decided success of the dairy
business.
With the alfalfa hay, the sugar
beet pulp and the climae-say moth
ing Of any other advantage, the
dairy business could help but sue
ceed. We can get along with min
mum amount Of many things.
which are considered necessary to