Milford chronicle., 1953-01-02
Assigned 20 Represent
Improved Stud Service
in Milford Area


Horace s.. Ridings, III, Of Milford
has been assigned to work as
herd technician for the Curfiss Cam
dy Farms Improved Stud Service
IN the Kent-Sussex Counties area.
Rulings recently completed an
in item sive three week training
course at the Curtiss Candy farm
at Cary, Illinois The Curtiss school
is the only one Of its kind in the
country for training technicians in
the artificial dissemination Of Gown.
In addition to learning the prin-
ciples Of the breeding program car
ried on at Curtiss, Rulings was in
structed in such subjects as: the
basic anatomy of a COW, the tech
niQue Of breeding, the Importance
and relationship Of timing to sue
Icessful conception. All practice
breeding was done on live cows SO
that Rulings now has actual exper-
ience for his work. College agricul-
tural professors spoke as guest lee
turers.
graduation from Otto Schnering,
founder and president Of the Cur
tiss Candy Company. In his talk
at the commencement ceremony.
Mr.. Schnering traced the. 10 year
history Of the Curtiss Candy farms.
/ its development of foundation herds
in the five major dairy breeds and
two beef breeds, as well as the
farms work with Yorkshire hogs.
broiler chickens, turkeys and trout.
Mr.. Schnering pointed out that
| the average on the more than 600
production records Of the immed-
late dams behind the 100 bulls In
the Curtiss service Is 15,051 lbs Of
lmilk-67S lbs butterfat and 4.5g6
test. This, he said, sEaws that Cur
tiss Candy bulls calvy the inherit.
ance to outproducsr the national ave
erage by three times or. exactly.
by 10,054 lbs. milk-475 lbs. butter
fat. Genetically, this means that
Curtiss Candy bulls have the abil-
4 ity to transmit one-half or 50go of
this production to their offspring.
In artificial breeding, Curtiss is
the only organization with its own
farms, with its own foundation
herds to produce its own herd sires
from its own great COW families
! Ridings viii offer both StDd Pool
Matings and Selected Matiags. Stud
! Pool Matings are those to a bull
available at the time c1 call for
service, without previous selection
/ Selected Matings are planned mat.
ings of a particular bull To a GER
tain COW at a specified tine or date
All bulls in the improved Stud
Service represent the collcentrSleS 81
goodness Of great COW families witt
inherited ability to transmit tIleil
good qualities. All are line-bree
for uniformity and conform to tn,
strict requirements of the Curtisl
Candy breeding program.
All bulls are used in Curtiss' oWI
high-prOducing and show Winninj
herds, where their offspring ar,
carefully observed to determin,
early their proof Of goodness,
thereby using their goodness over
a longer period of years.
Ridings invites all farmer breed.
ers to visit the Curtiss Candy farm
where they can see the sires they
use, as we'll as the sires and dams
grandsires and granddams, great
grandsires and granddams, anC
other related members Of the fam.
lily. 1t is an opportunity to know
everything possible about each oi
the sires and to see how little is
left to chance.
While Ridings was undergoing
instruction at schools, reports were
received from the Illinois state
Fair where Curtiss entries in eacl
of the five major dairy breeds woI
a total Of % championships and 6!
blue ribbons (1st places): from th
Wisconsin State Fair where 81 an.
imals in four breeds won 12 cham
pionships and % blue ribbons; an,
from the Iowa State Fair where i
head of Holsteins won both gran,
championships and IL blue rib
bons. OF the 81 head exhibited a
all these fairs, AZ were bred b
Curtiss at the farm-bred by thC
same sires available to farmer
breeders through the Improves
Stud Service.