Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-20
COOPER TALKS ON
Pure BRED SIRES

/ Of the state to awake to the i'm
portance of raising better grad
meat animals is made by Deaf
Thomas P. Cooper. of the College
of Agriculture of the University
OF Nen.nrRy The appeal is made
III connection with the campaign
CT the Kentucky Purcbred Live
STICK EsS0ciation ana the LOUIS
vile Livestock Exchange fol
better livestock and in particular
with regard to the Farmers Bet
ter Sire Sale to be held at the
Bourbon Stock Yards, June 2
when 200 pure bred registered
bulls Will be sold to the farmers
Of HE state.
Dean Cooper's outline Of the
campaign and review OF its pur-
poses fellow:
Tic pure bred sire campaign
is 4 great rational movement for
tie bc:;crment of the livestock
industry. Two years ago the
United States Department OF Ag-
riculturc first began systematic
work in cooperation with the
stat. agriculture colleges for the
a1owed purpose of eliminating
The scrub sire and eventually the
scrub stock.
Careful students of the live
stock industry state that there
are three great sources Of eco
nomic loss in livestock produc-
ton. which is combination OF
care and feeding and Of breed
Jog. It is the well known law
81 breeding that it is the tenden-
oy OF like to produce like.
Hence the scrub reproduces the
poor qualities as does the pure
bred individual of good type re-
produce good qt1alities.''
Scrub stock is responsible for I
large percentage of low farm la
boz 1Hr' mes. The farmer may
use efficient machinery, good
work stock and have the soil in
in productive condition, ye+ I'M
less his livestock are efficient
producers he will feed and care
for them at a loss.
To the keen observer. the i'm
portanCe of good stock requires
no proof of figures. However,
there is an abundance OF evidence
Is TO the value Of improved stock
in dollars and cents. The aver
age COW, the average steer will
scarcely make profit for its
owner. 1t only is through better
than production or more COM
mercial production that profit &c,
crues to the farmer. The road
to economy i'll production, wheth
er meat, milk or eggs, is better
breeding.
"A pure bred beef sire Of good
individuality will raise the quail
ty of his offspring at least two
grades over that Of a scrub sire.
The difference in price between
the grades of feedrs Is about 40I
cents per hundred-weight or So
on thousand pound steer. This
is solely due to the use
Of pure bred individual Of quail
lty and the markets daily reflect
the Importance Of breeding in the
price paid to the producer"
The returns from the use of a
good pure bred beef sire COM
pared with those of a poor scrub |
are striking. Recently the re-
suits Of the use of a good sire
we're compared at the Kentucky |
Agricultural Experiment Station.
A 5-year-old scrub steer, sired
by a scrub bull was killed. Its
weight was 1,227 pounds, the
lressing percentage 81 and its
value $134 The high grade steer
sired by pure bred bull, was
.wo years old, weighed 1923
pounds, dressed "a per cent and
vas valued at $500. This strik-
ng example OF the breeding.
Another example: Experiments
,arried on at the Kentucky Ex-
pertinent Station over a period of
TX years, show that the lambs
fred by good pure bred rams will
Weigh or 10 pounds per head at
i've or six months of age than
will those sired by scrubs. The
rlperior quality and finish make
hem sell on the markets for at
east cent more per pound.
Carefully conducted expert
nents at the Experiment Station
how the improvements Which
axes place in quality and quaint
Y of wool common ewes shear
bout five pounds of wool. Grade
Yves sired by pure bred rams
will shear from one to three
'ounds more per head, a gain di-
ectly attributed to breeding.
Instances of the effectiveness