Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-07-19

Wnat can i expect from pureDred
dres? This Is question which has
Deen asked by thousands and thou
lands of farmers for centuries, and
bne that every test has answered in
tavor of the purebred, yet nearly 80
percent of the farmers of Tennessee
who have livestock of one kind or an
dher, because Of Indifference or lack
If appreciation of the results which
heir neighbors have secured, have not
,oHght to take advantage of the pure
bred sire. 1t is high time that we
st0p this leak in our livestock system
If farming by the use of good purebred
tires, and place the hundreds of thou
lands of dollars which is today being
ost to the farmers by the use Of infe-
.ior males to his credit In the county
s,ank.
A survey completed during the fall
Of 1921 by the J. s. Department of
Agriculture among $50 livestock farm
RS owning $4,000 head of livestock in
hree middle western states recorded
The fact that the increase in financial
returns traceable to the use of pure
bred sires on their farms was 4S per
:ent. These men had used purebred
sires for a period of nine years, SO
here can be no mistake about this data
being authentic.
Again we come to the question of
Farmers Bulls, what is he? He is
purebred bull of unquestionable lin
.age. with quality in his confirmation
10 insure his making an Improvement
IN the common casse when mated
With them. The pedigree OF this ami
nal carries two important things
With 1t; first the uniform type of the
animal means that his ancestry has
seen subject TO. a certain amount of Sc
ecti0n in mating. In the second place,
ais pedigree means the possession of
lseful economic traits which the breed
known to possess over and above
ordinary cattle. This enables the
farmer in possession of pedigr9sd
animal 10 feel that he has more than
IN even chance TO secure these useful
rats in the offspring. In helfers the
ancestry of Il purebred sire has been
standardized and the farmers who use
9urebred slres may expect standard
zed results in a uniform progeny.
Value In Beef Production
A Washington farmer gives the fol-
owing report on two calves dropped
III his farm. One calf was sired by a
Durebred bull and the other by a scrub
The calves had dams Of equal merit
The calves were grown and finished
on the same kind of feed and with
Ire same attention and care. At ma
mrity the calf sired by the purebred
DULL weighed 1410 pounds and SOLD
.or $112.SO. The calf sired by the
scrub bull sold ut the same time weigh
ny 900 pounds and sold for $500, 4
difference of S53.40 in favor of the
9urebredl sires. The survey among
he $50 middle western farmers own
ny $4,000 head of livestock is not fan
wrong when they stated that for nine
gears purebred sires had returned t,
heir farms an increase of AZ percenl
financially.
Practically every dairy herd con
..:.ias a few poor cows that are lean
NJ on the better ones for support. /
well known that the cost of labor
iced and overhead are increasing onl,
20 Il slight degree in making milk from
1000 pound cows compared to tn,
1000 or 5000 pound class.
Assume that reasonably well bret
sire increases the production of thu
daughters by three pounds per day
This seems small but for 800 days tn,
increase would be 900 pounds. In /
herd of ten milking cows this is an in
crease of 5000 pounds of milk pc
rear and for the average milking lif,
Of the cows an increase of 45,00
pounds. At eight cents per quar-
per COW per year, 1898 for ten COW
per year, and S1,692.S0 for ten COW
for five years largely net
The superior earning power of
purebred boar over a scrub or grad
S estimated to be 1873 percent. If yo
will follow the market quotations o.
hoes YOU will find the above percent
age suBstantlated Time and aeai
the writer has observed litter Of pig
sired by an outstanding boar sell firm
$500 70 $500 more per head ut wear
Ing time than those sired BY Il sciui