NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 283 
dams in milk production but on account of a higher per cent of fat 
they gained slightly in fat production. 
Ten daughters fell a total of 3,770 pounds of milk per year behind 
their dams, but gained 100 pounds of fat. The general results of 
using this bull were disastrous. In fact, the poorest animals ever in 
the herd were his offspring. The averages shown are made as good as 
they are only by the fact that the two full sisters sired by this bull, 
through some "nick," proved first class animals. 
When this herd was culled on milk records alone nine out of the 
eleven daughters of this bull then in the herd were sold to the butcher 
The two remaining were the full sisters mentioned. As long as this 
bull was in the herd the general tendency was backward. 
The next bull at the head of the herd was Lome of Meridale. This 
bull had a splendid pedigree from the standpoint of records and his 
offspring show the results. His daughters, with one exception, were 
all superior to the dams. 
The average milk production was raised from 4,542 pounds per year 
to 5,751, The fat production from 220 to 280 pounds per year. At but- 
ter fat prices the ten daughters of Lome of Meridale returned each 
year $150.00 more than their dams. What a difference from the re- 
sults from Missouri Rioter. 
If we had milked thirty daughters of this bull six years each, their 
product would have exceeded their dams in value $2,700.00, while the 
daughters of Missouri Rioter went $939.00 behind or a difference in, 
thirty cows in six years of $4,639.00 in actual income. 
What would be the value of Lome of Meridale in a large herd? We 
cannot say, but as a business proposition an owner of a large herd 
would better pay $1,000.00 for him than accept Missouri Rioter as a gift. 
Yet if he had been offered for sale when mature, the chances are that 
instead of bringing what he was worth, he would have brought little 
more than a bull beef price. 
Th.e next herd bull was Missouri Rioter 3d. This bull was the son 
of Missouri Rioter, and was the only real good thing this latter sire 
left in the herd. The remarkable qualities of Missouri Rioter 3d may 
come in part from his dam which was the best cow in the herd up to 
that time and, like the sire, the daughter of Bachelor of St. Lambert. 
The best cows ever in our herd were sired by Missouri Rioter 3d. 
From dams with average records of 4,609 pounds of milk he sired daugh- 
ters whose records average 7,154 pounds. The dams averaged 238 pounds 
fat per year and the daughters raised this to 348. 
Ten daughters of this bull produced $275.00 worth of fat per year 
more than their dams. Counting this on the same basis as before thirty 
cows for six years we have $4,950.00 worth of butter fat produced by 
the daughters in excess of that produced by the dams. 
What would be the value of this bull had he been owned by an asso- 
ciation of neighboring dairymen where he might have had one hundred 
daughters or more? 
This bull was raised on the college farm and as is often the case, 
because he was a home product instead of coming from a distant state, 
he was not counted of any special value and was sold from the herd 
