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Journal of Agriculture. 



[10 March, 1909. 



the other hand, the user of the pure-bred bull each year improves the grade 

 of his herd in both appearance and production, and establishes his business 

 on a sound paying basis. While he is thus yearly increasing the profit 

 from his herd, such animals as he finds it expedient to cull out will find 

 a more ready sale on account of their showing some indication of having 

 been bred from dairy stock ; and the nearer his grades approach in 

 character to the pure stcxk the better will his selling prices be. In the 

 improved prices of culls alone the purchase of a good bull is often repaid. 



It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the use of an inferior bull 

 in the dairy herd is a death-blow to the success of the next generation of 

 the herd. Valuable time is being wasted and money lost on everv dairv 

 farm where the owner neglects to make use of that most economical and 

 sure aid towards increasing his profits — the pure dairy-bred bull. 



On pages 134 and 135 respectively are shown two opposite results in 

 stock breeding. Thei one on page 134 is a degenerate specimen, the 

 result of mating a cross-bred bull to a cross-bred cow. He is a 3-year- 

 old bull, and at the price of grass alone the raiser is probablv some ^4 

 ^^ £S out of pocket by keeping him. 



On the other hand, the Jersey bull demonstrates the result of judicious 

 mating. He is a winner of considerable prize money and, being bred 

 from dairy stock, he is highly valuable as a dairy stud bull ; in addi- 

 tion, his owner has an animal whose appearance is a considerable pleasure 

 to him. This bull is at present 25 months old, and has won 10 first 

 prizes and 4 championships. He was placed second in the yearling 

 class of 21 entries at the Melbourne Royal Show, 1907. That was his 

 first appearance in the show ring, he being then 10 months old. Since 

 then he has not been beaten in his class, winning in succession at Bacchus 

 Marsh, Cranbourne, and Dandenong in 1907; Lang Lang, Frankston, 

 Melbourne Royal, Ballarat National. Bacchus Marsh, and Dandenong, 

 1908 ; and he opened this year by winning first and champion prizes at 

 Frankston in January. These particulars were kindly furnished by the 

 owner, Mr. Wm. Ayres, who has a small dairv herd at Railwav Avenue, 

 Malvern. Mr. Ayres has been breedmg Jerseys for some 12 years past, 

 and his first exhibit — a cow — won ist and champion prizes at Bacchus 

 Marsh in October, 1901. That cow was Daphne, the grand-dam of this 

 bull, Favourite's Fox TT. His breedinrr is as follows : — 



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