Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-06

what is the use Of all this noise
about Better sires and Better
Stoke" 1t was one Of the well-to-
talking. "Look at those steers over
yond. No purebred sires among their
ancestors so far as l know. But they
are good enough for me. 1 tell you,
Bascom," he said earnestly. coming
over to the fence beyond which the
county agent sat in his f1ivver. It'll
admit we've got a lot of help In
scientific way from the information
you've brought us, but on this stock
proposition it's different. 1 believe
in coed STICK bfs nr ID IN v aaa
but what is the use of OVERRIDING
it? We better move along the way
we have been for the past twenty
years, I say. Sometimes we get some
poor animals, of course, but the
well. My father, on the, old farm
back east, never worried about pure
bred sires and he made fair liv-
ing. What was good enough for
father is good enough for me-.
agent, stopping his motor and COM
ing over to the fence. you've al
ways listened to what I have had to
say in the past, and I want you to
listen to me now. for the simple
reason IIldI IL lllSdAS uO11d1S dlO
cents to you. It's nothing in my
pocket, but it will mean more profits
for you when you sell your live stock
"Now here is the dope, as the boys
say: United States department. OF
bandry specialists, poultry specialists
and all the rest have figured this
thing out on broad basis. There
are two ways about it. Better sires
mean better stock; that means bet
ter marketable products, and that
means better profits
Boy Converts His Father
For an hour Bascom, the county
agent, and Sam, the farmer, talked
over the better, sires campaign, the
county agent skillfully citing ex-
amples from his own personal knowl-
edge and from reports he had read
He told, for instance, of a New Jer-
sey boy who was Influenced to buy a
high-grade cow for $155, quite to
the disgust of his "practical'' father
ed, and truthfully, were "as good as
the average in the neighborhood.'
On freshening, the boys COW gave
tWenty-four quarts of milk, and
none of the fathers cows was able
to make any such record. Finally
the father saw the point and CON
fessed that it was a deal more prof
table to expend his labor and feed
on well-bred animals than on his so.
called average COW.
The incident set the county agents
friend to thinking, and the former
lost no opportunity to press his
sam" he went on, you don't be.
gin to realize what this thing will
mean on your place. Right breed
| ing counts every time. The United
States departmenr of agriculture
yearling bulls that he priced highly
for breeding purposes. A butcher
saw those bulls and on asking the
price learned that they were regis
tered and that it would take 5000
to buy the two. What did he do but
pay the $780,. and when he killed
them he said they were the cheapest
cattle he had bought for a long time,
because they cut the better kinds OF
beef, and more OF it. My private
opinion is it was too bad to deprive
the community of the use of those
purebreds, even though the butcher
was willing to pay the price. But
this is the big point: Breeding count
ed in dollars and cents in that case,
and 1T does every time"
Hogs Pay Despite High Price
tie to hogs, the county agent told
never been so high" he said, hun
dreds of boys bought pure-bred pigs
with the expectation of selling their
offspring Those lads were not dis
| appointed. Through their county
agents, the pigs were sold at splen-
| did prices and more than one OF