The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-10-23
Farm Bureau Notes

BETTER SlRES-BETTER STOCK |
Encouraged by the results already
attained in localities where the "bet-
ter blood" campaigns have been con-
Quoted, Uncle Sam is now preparing
to take the war-path against all scrub
sires in the country in a national
roundup whose purpose is to Danish
the mongre. male, irrespective of age,
type, variety or other abb, from the
United States. DIR. John II. Mohler, A
chief of the bureau of Animal Indus
try, y. S. Department of Agriculture,
in giving the signal for launching the
big battle against inferior herd head
ers and flock leaders, said: "With con
fidcnce that better live stock will
bring satisfaction and many benefits
to its owners, | invite the concerted
action of farmers, stockmen and 9TH
ers in banshing scrub sires from the
United States. The wide spread use
of inferior male breeding animals
has beer for many years cause of
low production per animal and of
needlessly poor quality. The contin-
uance of such conditions is unecon-
omic and unnecessary. The direct and
practical means of improvement is
the use of breeding animals, especial
ly sires, which are true representa-
tives of breeds developed for def
mite useful purpose. | am confident,
too, that the public, knowing produc-
ton to be performed with maximum
efficience, will look upon stock rails
ing with increased respect and under
standing. In some places noteworthy
improvement in special lines has been
taking place through individual and
community efforts. Let us now hast
en- such improvement wherever live
stock is kept"
TO Replace Scrubs With Better Stock
The plan is to replace the multi
tude of scrub domestic animals in the
United States with pure bred or high
grade stock and to improve the quail
ity of the pure breds themselves by
intensive selection and careful mating
the general use of good pure bred
sires being the basis for this accom-
| plishmeEt. Uncle Sam considers edu-
cation more effective than legisa-
ton in problem Of this character,
because of educating farmers to APP
preciate better stock they develop I'M
consciously antipathy toward infer
| Tor stock.
The pure bred, the plutocrat OF
farm animal society, is the pathfind-
er of live stock progress and improve
ment, the Excelsior of the domestic
animal world. The pure bred typifies
progress, uplift, betterment, thrift,
accomplishment, ambition and pure
bredism are the standard autographs
of better live stock. Just as better
homes make better people, similar
connecting bond cements the associa-
ton between better sires and better
stock.
Two hundred million head of i've
stock in addition to poultry will be
affected by the farm animal improve
ment drive. The Department of Ag-
riculture through its cooperative,
state agencies plans to assist in the
education Of live stock owners and
farmers generally as thoroughly as
possible. In addition, the Department
viii distribute an official emblem,
suitable for display to every farmer
who agrees to use only pure bred
sires on his farm and who in other
ways cooperates for the bettermert
of farm live stock Anyone, be he boy
or girl, man or woman, is eligible for
membership in Uncle Sans better
livestock club. All that is necessary is
he or she be an owner, of one head or
more of livestock and that he or she
agree to breed such animals only to
purebred sires.
AS completely as Hercules cleaned
the Augean stables, Uncle Sam con-
templates Kidding his land of infer
ior male breeding stock by educating
stockmen and farmers, from the At
lantic to the Pacific, from Maine to
Texas, concerning the value of pure
breds--by purebreds is meant good
purebreds--and the danger Of using
grades, scrubs and mongrels as sires.
As surely as the red signal at q
bridge indicates danger, the use Of low
quality sircs in the flock or herd
means the dissemination OF poor
blood and the spread OF undesirable
characters.
The trouble with our live stock has
been that in the farm animal world
there have been too many Benedict
Arnolds and too few George Washing
tons; that is 90 say, breeding stock
has been used abundantly which has
been detrimental to the best interests
Of live stock improvement and pro-
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