367a GENERAL TOPICS. 



CO-OPERATIVE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. 



By-Laws Governing Co-operative Breeders' Association. 



(i) It shall be the purpose of this association to procure and 

 use pedigreed sires for the purpose of improving our live stock 

 through a system of up-grading. This method of improvement 

 implies the continued use of some one kind of pure blood on the 

 grade and mixed bred stocks. The association opposes the ad- 

 mixture of the blood of several breeds and the use of cross-bred 

 grade and scrub sires. The association also pledges itself to 

 exert every possible influence for the improvement and further- 

 ance of the live stock interests of the community. 



(2) It shall be the duty of the officers of this association to 

 purchase the necessary sires and negotiate with competent parties 

 within the association, centrally located, to care for and handle 

 the bulls at a sum not to exceed — per annum. 



(3) All bulls must be purchased subject to the tuberculin test 

 as a safeguard against the introduction of tuberculosis. 



(4) No bulls or other breeding animal^ shall be purchased from 

 any herd in which three or more cases of aborlion have occurred 

 during the past three years. (This will make reasonable allow- 

 ance for accidental abortion and act as a safegua-d against tiie 

 ravages of contagious abortion.) 



(5) Should any contagious or infectious disease appear in the 

 herd of any member of this association he must forfeit the right 

 to patronize males of the association until such time as his herd 

 is declared free from disease by a competent veterinarian. 



(6) A service fee of $1.00 shall be charged members of the 

 association, to be collected at lime of service. A charge of $2 

 will be made to non-members in case the association should 

 decide to accept the patronage of the same. Refund of service 

 fee is to be made in the case of animals proving to be non-breeders. 



(7) Service fees shall be used to defray cost of maintenance 

 and handling of sires. Any surplus accumulations from this 

 source may be divided among stockholders as dividends. 



(8) It shall be the duty of the officers of this association to 

 require and see to it that each sire is kept in a strong, vigorous, 



