The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-01-13
Farm BureauN Notes
Two Delegates to Attend NJ. r. B. F.
Annual Meeting Chosen.

TWO OtAtEAtto " fAveGktA A'A- ~ - '
Annual Meeting Chosen.
At the meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Farm Bureau Sat
urday afternoon, Mrs. C. G. Schuttler
!, and Mr.. G. B. Denman we're elected to
serve as delegates for the local Farm
Bureau to the Annual Meeting of the
Missouri Farm Bureau Federation to
be held in Columbia next week in con-
nection with Farmers Week. The To-
cal Farm Bureau is entitled TO two
more delegates at this meeting. ANY
Farm Bureau member planning tc at
tend Farmers Week, is asked TO no.
tify US SO that two more delegates can
be chosen from among the number
going to Columbia, Those selected by
the local credential committee for del
egates, will be notified and arr iange-
ments made for them to act in this
capacity.
WHY Use Purebred Buil9
The present breeds Of cattle repre-
sent the efforts toward improvement
in certain definite lines by several
generations of breeders. 1t is folly
for man to attempt to start at the
beginning to build up for himself
what il has taken a century or more
to, build by others. By making use OF
animals Of highly developed breed
adapted to the purpose for which they
are to be used, he is taking advant-
age of all the work that has been done,
and is starting in at the highest point
of advancement reached by other
breeders.
Cows of a distinct breed usually
sell for more than the same number
of cows mixed or unimproved breed
ing, even if the latter are known to
be equally good as dairy cows or beef
cows. The cows of a distinct breed
are worth more to the buyer, because
he can reasonably expect these ami
mails to show the typical character OF
the breed to which they belong in the
production of milk or beef, in disposi-
tion and in other breed characters.
Further, he can reasonably expect
that these cows, when mated with a
male of the same line of breeding,
will produce offspring having the
same typical breed characters. A
COW of mixed breeding, even if a good
dairy COW, or an unusually good milk
er in a breed where milking qualities
are not generally found, cannot be
counted upon to reproduce herself IN
her offspring, neither can a COW OF
mixed breeding even if good beef
COW in a breed where beef qualities
are not generally found be counted
upon to reproduce herself in her off
spring. It is a well-known, fact in
animal breeding that the longer cer-
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the more certain it issto be transmit
ted.
Pure breeds have been bred genera
ton after generation with certain OBJ
jects in view, and in course OF time,
these characters become fixed as breed
characters and are transmitted. 1t is
easy to understand why the chances
are good for getting good dairy COW
if the ancestors are Holstein, known
to have been bred 1000 years in one
locality, and noted for hundreds Of
wears for great dairy animals, or if
the parents are Jerseys bred for hun
dreds Of years in one locality, along
one line. The same is true in case OF
beef cattle.
1t has long been an axiom of the
breeder that the sire is half the herd,
and it is generally accepted as mt
expression of an important rule. The
skillful breeder of any kind of stock
does not need to have it pointed out
to him how important it is that the
sire be properly selected. Ii he is
skillful breeder, it is largely because
he realizes the Importance of the sire
and knows how to select him. While
the skilled breeder realizes the i'm
portance of this in breeding, the av-
erage cattle keeper does not give the
question of the selection of the sire
anything approaching the attention
the Importance of the question de-
nrands. Many men make use OF q
scrub or grade sire on account OF
mistaken economy in cost, rather than
pay a few dollars more for an animal
that is almost certain to transmit de-
sirablo qualities.
The bull to be used should be pure
bred and of the breed to which the
cows belong or in case grading up Is
to be done, of the breed selected as
best suiting the purpose. 1t is easily
understood that bull whose ances'
tors have been bred for many genera
tions for one purpose is more certain
to transmit that character than one
whose ancestry is mixed.
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