The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-29
EXPERIMENT DAIRY
BULL IS APPROVED
Ayrshire At Experiment
Station Dairy Passed
By Breeders

The third Ayrshire bull bred at
the Experiment Station Dairy,
near Raleigh, has been approved
by the Ayrshire Breeders Asso-
citation, DR.. C. D. Grinnells, asso
ciate in charge of dairying at the
Experiment Station, has announc-
ed.
Word has just been received
from the national association that
Cardinals Brae Champion 50610
has been granted a rating OF ZAP
proved"
Brae Champion is the sire of 40
registered daughters and 81 reg
istered sons. His sire, Pinhurst
William Tell 41263, and his dam,
Bellefonte's Bray Daisy 107139,
were also approved. And DR..
Grinnels says that among Ayr
shire breeders, he might be called
a line-bred MAN O'War" bull
On test, Brae Champions first
sixteen daughters averaged 9,718
pounds of milk, while the required
amount for approval is $500
pounds. They also had a fat per-
centage of 4.12, against the re-
quired 3.9 per cent; and produced
400 pounds of fat, the required
amount is $40 pounds. This, DR..
Grinnells points out, is high av-
erage.
The bulls equal parent index is
1899 pounds of milk, 4.07 per
cent fat, and 447 pounds of fat.
The requirements for an approved
sire are $500 pounds of milk, $40
pounds of fat, and butterfat in
dex Of 3.9 per cent.
The other two requirements for
approval of a sire, are that a
comparison of a random sample of
at least ten daughter-dam pairs
must be used, and not less than
70 per cent of all the tested daugh-
tiers must each make $500 pounds
milk Or $40 pounds of fat. Both
OF which requirements were met
by the Brae Champion 50610.
c. T. Conklin, secretary of the
Ayrshire Breeders Association,
congratulated the station authori-
ties on the successful achievement
OF breeding and proving this sire.
In his letter, he said, HE has
certainly come through with pro-
duction that places him well above
the minimum requirements. By
this time, you may have come
to realize that it is just as easy
for "a camel to go through the
eye of needle as for an Ayr
| shlre sire to make the approval
before all records are carefully
checked, studied and verified, in
GLIDING the disposition and his
tory of animals that are INFESTED.
The full data are then studied by
dislnterested committee of
five
The Approved Ayrshire Sire
Plan, based on the results of ten
years OF personal study by Leon
ard Tufts of Pinehurst, was adopt
ed on November Is, 1910, by the
directors of the Ayrshire Breed
ers' Association. Analysing the
transmitting ability of bulls by
this method is now a service fur
nished to Ayrshire owners as part
of a plan for herd improvement.
Not only is the newly approved
bull an approved sire, but he is
also an animal of a good type,
DR.. Grinnells says. For five
years, Cardinals Brae Champion
50610 was named the grand cham
pion at the State Fair in Raleigh.
The bull was bred and raised on
the Experiment Stations farm
near Raleigh. His success adds
to the evidence that progress is
being made in feeding and breed
ing dairy cattle in North Caro-
lima, the specialist says.
He points out that approval o.
this bull emphasizes another
breeding practice that should be
given attention by dairymen o
the state.
When a sire is needed to heat
a herd. the owner should examine