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allow a few dollars to get in the way of your 

 securing a bull that has the individuality you 

 want and also has the right heredity. Do not 

 put the bull in service before he is one and a 

 half years old and let the service be light until 

 he is well matured, as it is necessary to main- 

 tain his sexual vigor. This is more necessary 

 when breeding for a dairy herd than when 

 breeding for beef. 



Use a Masculine Bull. — The bull must have 

 plenty of exercise if he is to continue in con- 

 dition to do' his best work and he must be prop- 

 erly fed. Do not feed him carbonaceous food, 

 but feed protein foods such as oats, wheat bran, 

 the gluten foods, alfalfa, clover and pasture 

 grass. It is established now beyond dispute 

 that an animal can be fed to produce strong 

 bone and good muscle and that is what we wish 

 to do with the bull. We want him to be vigor- 

 ous, not pretty. Let him have masculine 

 beauty. A feminine bull should be driven out of 

 the herd by the cows if the owner has not sense 

 enough to take him out. A strong vigorous 

 masculine bull will get a larger percentage of 

 heifer calves than will a feminine bull and they 

 are more likely to inherit the dairy qualities 

 of the bull's dam. This may be called theory, 

 but it is based upon thirty years of study and 

 experience. Wlien we have learned the ability 

 of each cow in the herd and have intelligently 



