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Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1919. 



who raised the production of his daughters over that of their 

 dams to the greatest amount. This increase in production was 

 4545-7 pounds of milk in a year. This bull was bred to two B 

 class dams and one D class. The daughters from this mating 

 were both in the A class. 



No. 2. Sans Aloi, the sire of Financial Beauty 271399, 

 the dam of the $60,000 bull Financial Sensation 153793, raised 

 the milk production of his daughters over that of their dams to 

 the next highest amount, -(-4464.5. He was bred to only two 

 tested dams and these were of the D class. His daughters from 

 that mating were of the A class. 



In a similar fashion the record of each bull is presented. 

 We might pick out other bulls of famous stock like Chief En- 

 gineer (18) or Golden Glow's Chief (19) the sire of Vive la 

 France as bulls who very evidently improved the breed as their 

 daughters' production attests. Instead of choosing such a list 

 at random let us take the list of leading native sires and the 

 list of leading imported sires as given by John R. Sibley (13,14) 

 and examine their merit as shown by this table and the subse- 

 quent tables. 



The leading native bulls are, omitting those which do not 

 have at least two daughter-dam pairs: 



Hood Farm Pogis 9th 



(76) 



+ 448.9 



Not significant 



Hood Farm Torono 



(12) 



+2620.1 



Significant 



Spermfield Owl 



(31) 



+1695.7 



Significant 



Loretta's King 



(61) 



+1000.2 



Probably significant 



Sayda's Heir 3d 



(101) 



+ 106.5 



Not significant 



Hector Marigold 



(222) 



—3507.0 



Significant 



Irene's King Pogis 



(157) 



— 761.8 



Probably not significant 



Lady Letty's Victor 



(142) 



— 534.5 



Probably not significant 



The leading imported sires are, omitting those which do 

 not have at least two daughter-dam pairs: 



Interested Prince 

 Raleigh's Fairy Boy 

 Gamboge's Knight 

 Royal Majesty 

 Noble of Oaklands 

 Eminent's Raleigh 

 The Imported Jap 

 Gedney Farm Oxford Lad 



(81) 



+ 401.8 



Not significant 



(74) 



+ 453.8 



Not significant 



(148) 



— 610.6 



Not significant 



(21) 



+2138.6 



Probably significant 



(136) 



— 453.3 



Not significant 



(44) 



+1325.0 



Not significant 



(194) 



—1533.4 



Probably significant 



(99) 



+ 128.0 



Not significant 



