The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-26
PUREBR[D SIRES
ENRICH COUNTRY
They Increase the Incomes
of Animal Owners
CUT.OUT THE SCRUB
Experts Declare Feeding And
Care Have Much To Do
With Production


100000 per year over the present
income, every man, woman and
child would be interested in know
ing how. it could be done and how
to do 1.-THE leading industry in
this country as well as in every
other county in this TERRITORY is the
livestock industry, which combined
in its various phases exceeds all
Eother sources OF wealth. Livestock,
of necessity, is the foundation of
the farming industry, and the fact
whether or not it is paying bust
ness determines the prosperity of
the community, as well as the gen
eral prosperity of the entire com
munity.
Overproduction with its resultant
lower prices and interpretation
with it's resultant higher prices has
been discussed pro and con through
out the years, with result that the
important factor of Economy of
Production" has, to large extent,
been overlooked. ~
Experience has taught that cers
tain animals or groups Of animals
of the same breed produce much
more efficiently and more economic
ally than do Others under exactly
the same care and feed. This of
necessity leads one to the realiza
ton that certain individuals have
the inherent qualities for this more
economical production, and brings
people to the "Purebred.'" A pure
bred animal is one of known breed
ing<a and ancestry, and through this
process has become a more efficient
machine than its far distant relative,
the scrub, or the animal Of nondes-
crypt breeding, carrying con-
giomeration of ancestors which has
| decreased instead of increased this
animals ability to produce either
flesh or mix. Purebreds,' because of
their known ancestry and because
OF the fact that they are more high
lily developed to produce more flesh
or milk, as the case may be, are the
key to the process of building up the
quality of livestock throughout the
country.
/ 1t is true that feeding and care
are enormous factors in livestock
production, but If the inherent abil-
! ity to produce is not present, the
best of care and feeding will be of
no avail. There are innumerable
cases in every community in this
state where herds of livestock have
J shown no improvement through the
past years, and all too many in
stances of cases where the quality
of the livestock as well as their
ability to produce has deteriorated
as the years pass.
| A purebred sire. of good conform
alton and type, out of ancestors of
known type and production, is the
II - h. @aI~ Il
situation in this state. Through his
double the production of the first
generation over the immediate an
, cestors, both as to the production of
meat and milk. And the most of
building up a herd through the use
of a purebred sire is small; almost
negligible when it is considered that
the production as well as the in
dividuality is being materially bet.
tered.
AS an -example, the average pro-
duction of the Minnesota dairy COW
for the year of 1921 was $50 pounds
of butterfat, which at an average of
40 cents totals gross return of
only $64 per head; this amount to
pay for the investment, housing, la
Dor in caring for the animal, feed
and other incidental expenses. On
the other hand, the average pro-
ing association COW is 260 pounds OF
fiat per year. produced under the
same conditions of feed and care.
Reduced to dollars on the same val
uation of the butterfat, this shows a
yearly income of $40 above the in
come of the average Minnesota cow.
This amount is determining factor
of whether or not dairying is a sue
cess.
Another concrete example of what
good purebred sires will do in
building up herd in a few years
and with a small investment is
shown in the following table, which
explains the results of a purebred
sire investigation being conducted
! by the Ames Agricultural College at
scrub COWS were taken and these
crossed with purebred bulls. The
offspring of these in turn were
again crossed with purebred bulls and
the production due to the use OF q
| purebred sire increased as follows:
Scrub dams: Milk, pounds, g.
6SS.3. Fat, pounds. 1913. Dangh
tiers: Milk, pounds, 6,7473 Fat,
pounds, 276.7O. Granddaughters:
Mix pounds, 1o.s25.5. Fat, pounds
/ Increase in Production over
scrubs: y -.1
| First generation: Milk, SO percent.
Fat: So percent. Second generation:
Milk, $50 percent. Fat, 12S percent.
! In beef production as well as in
dairy production there are 1nnum :
1 cradle instances Of as marked an
increase in both economy Of produo-
! ton and number of pounds. gained.
A large number of experiments con
Quoted by using a good purebred
ibeef sire on scrub stock shows that
/ the first cross produced 3S percent
more beef than his scrub dams, I'M :
der exactly the same conditions as
4 to housing, feed and care.
! Hogs, also through a large mum
Der of experiments conducted along
this line show an increased produc-
ltion of SO percent in the offspring
OF a purebred sire from scrub dams
under the same living conditions
These cases emphasize il very
/ forceful manner that a purebred is
the best investment that producer
Iof livestock can make.
The original investment in a good
Ipurebred sire is very small when we
stop and consider the value of this
/ hal in building up herd. Place
a purebred sire at the head of youl
herd land it will invariably become
THE best paying proposition thai
was ever invested in. Support the
pho Earth County purebred Sire