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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 11, 
KEEPING REGISTERED BULLS. 
What proportion of the bulls kept in your 
section are eligible to registry? Do your 
farmers recognize the value of such bulls? 
What excuses are given for not keeping 
them ? 
There is a sitfall per cent of registered 
bulls in this neighborhood, not over 25 or 
30 per cent. As to the reason, I suppose 
it is mostly indifference, and also the in¬ 
creased cost. j. E. D. 
Bellaire, O. 
There are very few dairymen in this 
county who keep purebred bulls, I am sorry 
to say. I think first cost of getting a pure¬ 
bred sire is the main hindrance, as we all 
know it costs no more to feed a purebred 
animal than a grade. If farmers could only 
see it that way the first cost of getting a 
purebred sire is not so much if we con¬ 
sider the real value of the animal we raise 
when it comes to age of producing, for we 
know by using a grade sire we are never 
sure of getting anything satisfactory or 
desirable. Farmers breed too haphazard 
generally. The best is none to good ; that 
applies to breeding or raising dairy cows 
as well as other things. If we were more 
particular in raising our cows we would 
be keeping fewer robbers, as a great many 
cows kept do not much more than pay for 
their feed. ^v # q, 
Castorland, N. Y. 
I have made inquiry of leading farmers 
in this section and give results. An ad¬ 
joining township has perhaps 10 per cent 
of purebred bulls (that is, animals entitled 
to registry). In this township of about 
22.000 acres the per cent is between one 
and live. The reasons for this small figure 
are, first, milk is sold to factories or con- 
denseries at so much a hundred weight, 
whether rich or poor in butter fat. Second, 
the herds are kept up more by purchase of 
new cows than by raising one's own stock. 
r J bird, the calves are sold as soon as pos¬ 
sible or practicable after birth, excepting 
the few that are raised, the price not being 
affected very much by the pedigree (or 
lack of it) of the sire. Where the dairy¬ 
man runs his own small factory or cream¬ 
ery there seems to be more of an inclina¬ 
tion to have the purebred sire, in other 
cases he probably considers it unnecessary. 
Perhaps the tenant farmers may be a fac¬ 
tor. If the landlord furnishes the cows 
and the tenant a bull what kind of an ani¬ 
mal is a one-year tenant going to provide? 
In general, my opinion is that the average 
farmer is not aware of the advantages to 
be derived from keeping purebred stock 
and, too often, local conditions do not seem 
favorable towards his education in that 
,ine - GEO. S. GRAVES. 
Herkimer Co., X. y. 
I do not know of any other farmers (ex¬ 
cept myself) in this town who takes much 
pains to breed from a purebred animal. 
V\ ith most of the farmers a pig is a pig 
and a calf is a calf. I do not think, with 
the exception of the Large Yorkshire swine 
I have registered, that any other animal 
was ever registered that was bred in this 
town. The cheapest I ever bought a York¬ 
shire pig was .$9.40 here. I offer them for 
sale at $5. Farmers do not give these mat¬ 
ters much attention. Many take no agri¬ 
cultural papers, and no institutes have 
been held with 30 miles of this place. I 
can only speak for myself, therefore when 
I say that in this cold section of country 
I find a purebred crossed on our hardy na¬ 
tive stock is best. In this way a herd can 
be bred up until hardly any native stock- 
remains, and yet it is hardy. Most of our 
farmers breed for size rather than quality, 
as they sell young stock to drovers. 
Warren Co., N. Y. g. c . a. 
There is only one high-grade registered 
bull in this town, and two or three eligible 
to registry. Most farmers use grade bulls 
because of the difference in price. The 
first bull referred to cost $75 when a calf. 
Grade bull calves can be bought from $5 
to $15. a, L. H. 
Norway, N. Y. 
I do not know of but one farmer in this 
community that makes a practice of buying 
and keeping a purebred bull for the im¬ 
provement of his herd. lie is a butter 
farmer and holds to the “Jersey type,” 
thought he does not carry registered stock. 
I do not think there is a single farmer in 
our community but what believes, in a 
general sort of a way, that the purebred is 
the best and will improve their herds, but 
there seems to be a lack of system in their 
breeding. Some farmer may bring a “grand 
bull” from registered stock, and all bring 
their cows to him regardless of the breed 
of their own cattle, and in a couple of 
years the “grand bull” is gone and another 
of a different breed takes his place, but 
in another farmer’s herd, and so the matter 
progresses til! the whole community is sup¬ 
plied with a lot of mixed-up “scrubs” with 
no special characteristics to recommend 
them. I believe that if the farmers would 
stjck to t^ie' breed of their choice ah'd use 
only tl)e veiiy best bulls 1 of that! bi-cod ob- 
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tainable, they would, in a very few years, 
have herds to be proud of. Personally I 
have only four cows in my herd, and it does 
not pay me to keep a bull, but I take them 
to the very best Jersey bulls within reach, 
and grades though they are, they show 
their blood. h. ii. b. 
Southbury, Conn. 
Out of some 50 or more neighbor farmers 
there are to my knowledge only three 
purebred bulls. One of these is owned by 
the manufacturing company on their farm, 
and is not in a practical herd; the second 
is owned by a wealthy peach grower, and 
although he has fine purebred stock, they 
are neglected and not profitable. The third 
is owned by a practical farmer and used on 
purebred cows for raising sale stock. Other 
than these bulls all the rest of us consider 
anything that will get the cow with calf 
good enough, as calves are killed imme¬ 
diately, none being raised. This is a milk¬ 
making section, and most of us are under 
contract to supply a somewhat even 
amount; therefore we must buy, as raising 
is too slow. If our cows drop we must 
immediately get more stock, therefore buy¬ 
ing is our method. Another reason against 
raising is the fact that feed' is too high 
here, while cows are brought from Vermont 
easily and at small cost. Milk sells for 
$2.12% per 100 pounds at the door, clean 
cans furnished No. 1 hay will sell in 
Springfield, eight miles away, for $25, and 
any upland hay will bring $15 to $18 at 
the barn, even meadow hay selling at $10 
to $12 at the farm. Therefore we cannot 
afford to raise; it costs more than the $50 
to $60 that it takes to buy a good cow. We 
can buy at $55 or $60 cows that will give 
16 to 18 quarts per day while fresh, and 
that is our only way to make it pay. 1 
think there* is no doubt that if our farmers 
raised stock the bulls kept would be al¬ 
most entirely registered- stock. r. p. 
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coming into use in some sections of the 
East where, on rough land, beef making 
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