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“T want to assure you,” he continues, “that the livestock officials 
of the United States Department of Agriculture are watching the 
demonstration with the keenest interest. It has been an inspira- 
tion to know that back of the educational material the department 
has issued on the subject of purebred sires, there is a farm of this 
kind to which skeptics may be referred should any doubt arise as to 
the influence of heredity and pure breeding in livestock betterment.” 
“T feel that I am safe in stating that no single better-sires effort 
by individual or institution has so vividly indicated, in a language 
that stockmen clearly understand, the necessity for better sires as 
has Sni-a-Bar Farms.” ; 
Fie. 11.—A second-cross calf, showing improvement in beef type over the first cross, 
Its sire was Maxwalton Mariner 1113592 
He then discusses the economic side of livestock improvement, the 
higher dressing per cent of well-bred stock, and the better quality 
of meat. “It would seem,” he continues, “that almost daily ex- 
perience on our commercial cattle markets where producers are 
penalized several dollars a hundredweight for their failure to use 
better bulls would be sufficient in itself to have taught us the neces- 
sary lesson long ago. It would seem that such experiences would 
have eliminated the scrub bull as a factor in the industry. But we 
are forced to admit that such has not been the case. It is one thing 
for the commercial cattle markets to impress on a shipper that he 
‘has suffered a loss through poor quality, but it is an entirely different 
thing to show him clearly and convincingly just how to avoid a 
repetition, Our conception of what is now needed is the extending 
