The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-03-30
BETTER Bl00D IS GOAL
Of LIVE STOCK BREEDERS
Many Agencies Throughout the
State Back Movement for
Pure.Bred live Stock


listment of all forces of the Ken
lucky College of Agriculture and of
the government, as well as the aid
OF the biggest livestock breeders Of
the State, was assured in the cam
paign for better livestock at a meet
ing called by Dean Cooper at the ex-
detrimental station at Lexington.
Full support to the Farmers Better
Sires Sale to be seld by the Kentucky
Pure Bred Livestock Association and
the Louisville Livestock Exchange
June was pledged.
An appeal to Governor Morrow to
proclaim the first week in June, the
occasion of the sale, to be devoted
to the movement for better bred
meat animals will be made by the
breeders and the officials of the ag-
ricultural school.
At the annual meeting of the Ken
lucky Federated Farm Bureaus next
week the drive will be taken up by
the members and actively extended
to the fifty counties reached by that
organization. All county agents
will be urged to carry the campaign
directly to the farmers. Banks and
merchants in county seats and live
stock sections will be asked to CO.
operate in purchases of the pure
bred bulls to be offered at the better
sire sale in Louisville.
Prospective buyers are urged to
get in touch with the Louisville
Livestock Exchange at the Bourbon
Stock Yards.
Federal Aid Offered
County agents will report to the
livestock exchange farmers who de-
sire to dispose of scrub stock and to
purchase pure-bred animals at the
auction, and representatives of the
Louisville Livestock Exchange will
be sent into the field to make ar
rangements for the disposal of the
inferior animals.
Government aid will be offered in
the distribution of posters issued by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture and OF literature urging
the determination of the scrub bull.
Both state and government litera-
ture will impress the farmer with
the added profits to be neted from
the better grade cattle.
The pledging Of unqualified sup
port TO the Kentucky Pure Bred
Livestock Association and Louisville
Livestock Exchange better sires sale
came as the first concrete move of
all interests toward the distribution
OF the better grade animals.
Better Cattle Urged
All speakers at the conference
agreed that Kentucky had the oppor-
tunity- at this time to assume her
former position as the most import
ant producer of better grade cattle
scrub cattle and of the pure and bet
ter grade meat animals is 10 be made
with the view of informing the far
mer as to his opportunities.
The meeting was called by Dean
Cooper to bring together all of the
factors and TO determine the best
course the agricultural school could |
pursue in bringing into play all of
her resources 10 aid the movement. |
Ii was agreed that professors from |
the STAFF of the experimental station
would be sent to Louisville to adj |
dress farmers and breeders in the as
sembly hall of the Bourbon Stock
Yards. The intention is to have
these addresses every Monday noon
when the largest number of farmers
and visitors usually is at the stock
yards.
Proposals to intensity the better |
bred cattle movement by the forma-
ton OF boys and girls calf clubs
with prizes were discussed and will |
become a feature of the compaign. /
The federal government is particul- |
arly interested in this phase of ex-
tension of the campaign as well as
the sale and purchase Of pure-bred |
animals.