The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-08-22

The Tried and Proven Bull Is the Best
Investment.
the buyer should choose one whose fe-
male ancestors have uniformly high
records of production, since this tndf-
Gates that high production is fixed
characteristic Of the family. Careful
attention should be given to the record
of the young bulls dam, and after that
to the daughters of his sire. The rec
ords OF closely related animals are
of far more Importance than the fact
that the pedigree may include, three or
four generations back, some excep-
tionalIy high-priced animals.
The tried and proven bull is the best
investment. When a bulls daugh-
ters are larger producers than their
dams, he has improved the herd. Many
good bulls, however, are sacrificed be-
fore their worth can be determined,
which means the continual use of
young bulls whose real value is not
known. The sire should be kept I'M
til his daughters have shown his worth,
and if he is herd improver he should
be kept in the community as long as
he is useful.
The owner Of a large herd Of cows
can well afford to own flrst-class
bull, and the bull association has now
made it possible for the owner Of
small herd to own q share i'm q good,
well-bred bull. A cooperative bull as
ISOLATION is a farmers organization
xxvhn fkR $s kH1n INT
ership, use and exchange Of high-class,
pure-bred bulls. If skillfully man.
aged these associations should be event
ually the greatest single factor in the
upbuilding of our dairy herds. The
typical cooperative bull association is
composed Of from 10 to 80 farmers.
It Jointly owns five bulls, and divides
its territory into five breeding blocks,
to each of which one bull is assigned.
AS many as so or 60 cows may belong
to the farmers In each block, and the
bull should be kept at some farm con-
veniently situated. The blocks are
numbered from one to five and to pre-
vent inbreeding each bull is moved to
the next block every two years. IL all
the bulls live and If all are kept I'M
til each has made one complete circuit,
no new bulls need be purchased for
ten years. In that way, paying only
q small part OF the purchase price Of
one bull, each member Of the associa-
ton has the use Of good, purebred bulls
for many years. In one association
having more than 100 members the
original cost to each was only $23. In
another association Of 80 members the
average investment was $25. It is
possible for each association to COM
Linue for ten years or more without
other additional cost than the main.
senance of the bulls.
Most of the milk I'm the United
States is produced In small herds con-
aiming four or five cows. Purebred
pulls are comparatively few In num-
Der, and expensive. It is, therefore,
for each dairyman with a
small herd TO own purebred bull. Be-
:ause OF the expense 1t would also be
to buy such bull for q
small herd. It would further be UNI
to limit the use Of good
Dul1 to a-few cows, when his use could
,e extended to a greater number Of
COWS. Tic purebred bulls could be used
n all the grade herds, In single gem
ration all the offspring would be at
east half purebred and would show
Improvement. BY means Of
he bull associations Ii Is possible for
mall herds to have the advantage OF
GOD purebred bulls at the minimum Of
nsk.