128 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



of the Illinois Dairymen's Association that the best slogan you 

 can adopt is ''get rid of the scrub sire." There should not be 

 a grade bull of any breed in service in any man's dairy herd and 

 the poor man is the last man that can afford to have a poor 

 bull. 



What does it mean whether I pay $25.00 for a bull or^ 

 $150.00? Suppose I have 18 to 20 cows. One Hundred and 

 Fifty Dollars should buy a buH out of a cow that has made ov- 

 er twenty pounds of butter in seven days. On the other hand 

 the $25 bull won't give any improvement. I am not advocat- 

 ing a high-priced bull because of price alone. We may lose 

 when we go for price alone. Nevertheless what should a man 

 pay for a bull? Three times as much as he thinks he can pos- 

 sibly pay, and when you go buying a bull just remember this, 

 you are in the dairy business for life, because you can't get, 

 away from. it. It is not a question of what I am going to have 

 next year; the man wants to carry in his mind the kind of herd 

 he wants to have in his barn ten years from today ; and he wants 

 to pick out the bull that will bring the herd as close as he can 

 to this ideal which is embodied in strong cows that produce lots 

 of milk of the right kind. These are the things that you have 

 to emphasize. Get a bull that has a large chest capacity, a 

 large food capacity and production inheritance. The only as- 

 surance that a bull is any good is what is back of him. I have 

 seen young, handsome bulls that I would not want in my herd 

 unless I was in the beef-raising business. Another reason why 

 I like to see a man pay for a bull is this : "Where a man's 

 money is, there is his heart also." If you buy a $25 bull you 

 give him $25 care but when a man buys a sire for $150.00 or 

 may be $400.00 he has the best bull in the county and if a man 

 says he has not he will have a scrap on his hands. That man 

 will give that bull good care and incidentally he is going to take 

 care of all his stock; he finds it pays and one of the big factors 

 is giving .the cattle a chance. 



As I said the other day, you can put all the money you 

 like into cows, but if you won't feed them you are wasting your 

 money. The last thing that was put on any of our pure breeds 



