The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-28
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 indi.
Gates that high production is a 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
that the pedigree may include, three or
four generations back. some excep.
tionally high-priced animals.
The tried and proven bull is the best
Investment. When a bulls daugh.
tiers 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 IN,
I'll 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 large herd Of cows
can well afford to own a first-class
bull, and the bull association has now
made 1t possible for the owner Of q
small herd to own a share in a good,
well-bred bull. A cooperative bull as
ISOLATION Is farmers organization
whose chief purpose is the joint own
ership, use and exchange of high-class,
pure-bred bulls. II 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 IL
composed Of from Is 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 go 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. If all
the bulls live and II all are kent nm
I'll each has made one complete circuit.
no new bulls need be purchased for
ten years. In that way, paying only
small part Of the purchase price Of
one bull, each member Of the associs.
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 500. n
another association of so members the
average investment was S25. IT q
possible for each association to con.
dnue for ten years or more withore
other additional cost than the mas,-
tenance Of the bulls.
Most OF the milk in the rYnss.R
states Is produced In small herds 49,.
tanning four or five cows. Puretres i
pulls are comparatively few In nr,,:
Der, and expensive. It is. there
impossible for each dairyman win I
small herd to own a purebred buIl n;
cause OF the expense 1t would Ale. u.
to buy such a bun Co.
small herd. 1t would further 4. 81
economical to limit the use az Z 49,
quiz TO few cows, when his use = -
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cows: II purebred bulls could n I.
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Immense !, Improvement. Rv rs., z<s8
the Dull associations 1t is -
small herds to nave the advanf;
cost. go 81