The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-01-17
STOCKMEN TO
HAVE BANQUET
COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIA-
TION WILL HOLD BIG MEET
ING IN COLVILLE
Better Sires Campaign to be Waged
as Part of U. S. Government
Plan to Better Herds

The Stevens County Livestock
Association will hold better sires
banquet. This banquet will be held
the evening of Thursday, January
20, and the purpose of the meeting
will be to organize in Stevens county
the United States government
BETTER SIRES-BETTER STOCK
campaign. This campaign was
launched recently by the department
of agriculture and has for its pur-
pose the elimination of the scrub
sizes from the county and the estab-
lishment in his stead of purebred
sres of individual merit and breed
ing. The purpose and plan of the
campaign is presented as follows:
Purpose of the Campaign
The purpose and goal in view is
the improvement of the principal
classes of domestic livestock in the
United States. Improvement has
been taking place for many years,
but progress can be hastened it is
believed by definite, systematic, and
concerted action.
Means of improvement
The value of livestock depends on
good care, housing, feeding and
disease control, as we'll as breeding.
Good breeding, however, determines
the fundamental capacity of an ami
NAL to be profitable to its owner.
Accordingly the replacement of scrub
sires by good purebreds is considered
basis for all other improvement.
While the use of good females is
likewise important, good sires bring
results more quickly and economically
in most cases.
Need For Better Livestock
| The underlying need for improve
ment of livestock in the United
States is to increase efficiency in the
production of meats and livestock
products, including dairy and poultry
| commodities. Economical production
| is one of the best means of maintain
ing healthy volume of domestic
trade and of meeting foreign COM
petition. Success in both these fields
is necessary to support livestock in
dustry of sufficient size to meet the
future food needs Of the country
and, through animal fertilizer and
other by-products, develop we'll
balanced agriculture.
Basis for Nationwide Campaign
The nationwide campaign of live
| stock improvement now being under
taken is in response to popular SEN
timent and to support local cam
paigns undertaken through state,
community, and Individual initiative.
| The plans on which the nationwide
| effort is conducted embody no essen
| TALLY new features of livestock i'm
provement. On the other hand, they
| have been developed from successful
| policies already used on a smaller
scale.
Better knowledge of Breeding
The campaign need not interfere
with any work of livestock improve
ment now in progress in any part OF
the country. Its primary purpose is
educational and it is largely intended
to acquaint livestock owners with the
principles of successful breeding. To
make results effective and the cam
paign definite, a plan of enrolment
is provided and each person enrolled
receives an official emblem in recog-
milton.
Field Organization and Enrolment
The work will be conducted through
organizations already in existence
and through such new ones as may
arise locally to meet future needs.
Several hundred county agents, ex-
tension workers, breeders and others
have signifed their support. The
states relations service of the United
States department Of agriculture re-
quests that workers under it's direct
or indirect supervision give the cam
paign their active cooperation.
Who May Be Enrolled
Any person in the United States
who keeps any kind if domestic live
stock may take part in the campaign
and be so enrolled. 1t includes the
boy or girl who has merely pig or
some poultry, as well as the ranch
man or extensive livestock breeder.
The enrolment of persons perma-
nently engaged in raising livestock
for market is especially desired.
Method of Enrolment
A person desiring to be enrolled
in the better livestock campaign
fills out simple blank (Which is
furnished by the Department. show
ing the kind and number of animals
kept for breeding and he agrees that