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THE RURAL N RW-YORKER 
October 4, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Every breeder should have a reason 
for the faith he has in some definite 
breed. What appeals to one man may 
not seem vital to another, but no man 
can succeed as a breeder unless he can 
gives solid reasons for his choice. Here is 
such a convincing statement put in a few 
words: 
Our reason for keeping Holsteins in 
preference to the other dairy breeds of 
cattle is that they are moi-e hardy, will 
consume more roughage and convert it 
into milk more economically than smaller 
breeds, and on account of their size bring 
a good price for beef when milked out. 
Their milk, being recommended very 
highly by physicians for infants and in¬ 
valids, should command an extra price. 
And last but not least, what is a finer 
that community to perfect a definite or¬ 
ganization in order that they can do 
more to encourage one another in estab¬ 
lishing better dairy herds. 
In Moquah, Bayfield County, there is 
a co-operative association of Slovak peas¬ 
ants who are co-operating in the improve¬ 
ment of their dairy cattle by using pure¬ 
bred Guernsey bulls furnished by the 
land company who are responsible for 
the colonization of these people. Only 
members of the association are privileged 
to use the bulls. These people occupy 
about eight sections of land which four 
years ago. was nothing more than wild 
cut-over land. The progress which they 
have made in building up their dairy 
herds through the few cows they have 
secured and the use of the purebred sires 
is very encouraging. The bulls are kept 
by certain farmers who give them the best 
of care under the directions of the land 
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A HOLSTEIN SIRE WITH GOOD PEDIGREE. Fig. 417. 
homestead ornament than a flock of 
black and white cattle, a fair sample of 
which is our herd sire, shown in Fig. 417? 
New York. keagan bros. 
COMMUNITY BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATIONS. 
There have been organized 78 associa¬ 
tions in Wisconsin for the improvement 
of dairy cattle. These associations are 
known as community breeders’ associa¬ 
tions. They are essentially bull clubs, 
for the reason that the first duty of each 
member is to improve his herd of cattle 
by mating his cows exclusively with a 
purebred bull of the breed which the as¬ 
sociation represents. The majority of 
the associations are organized under the 
name of some specific dairy breed, like 
Waukesha Guernsey Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion or the Price County Holstein Breed¬ 
ers’ Association. It is also the duty of 
members of these associations to co-oper¬ 
ate so far as possible with their fellow 
members in the use of purebred bulls 
aud in buying and selling animals, also 
to get new members and encourage them 
in the practice of better methods in car¬ 
ing for their herds. In the more settled 
sections of the State where dairy cattle 
are most numerous, the majority of mem¬ 
bers prefer to own and use their own bull 
for the reason that there is less danger 
of infectious diseases like contagious 
abortion being introduced into a herd or 
spread about the community. In quite a 
good many instances, however, one bull 
is maintained and used to breed all of 
the cows in a neighborhood. In such in¬ 
stances the owner of the bull is very 
careful to learn the condition of the herds 
from which cows are brought, and is care¬ 
ful not to breed any cows from herds 
which have any indications of infectious 
diseases. 
There is one very interesting instance 
where a bull at Three Lakes, Wisconsin, 
owned by Mr. F. S. Campbell, has served 
138 cows within a radius of 12 miles 
since May 11, 1912. Up to August 13, 
55 ealvcts, the get of this bull, had been 
born. The people of this community are 
not definitely organized into an associa¬ 
tion, but are following the plan and ideas 
of the Guernsey Breeders’ Association 
of that county in mating their cows to a 
purebred sire. At a meeting of these 
farmers on August 13 at Mr. Campbell’s 
farm, many of the cows which had been 
bred to the bull, together with their 
calves, were brought and used as a means 
of demonstration of what could be ac¬ 
complished by the use of a purebred sire. 
It was a most interesting and helpful 
meeting. There is a movement at the 
present time on the part of the people of 
company, and who are paid for the feed 
and time the bulls require by a portion of 
the service fees which members of the as¬ 
sociation are obliged to pay. In the ma¬ 
jority of instances, the community asso¬ 
ciations which have been organized for the 
improvement of dairy cattle in Wisconsin 
have done as much to encourage the im¬ 
provement of dairy cattle as any other 
fact which has been introduced with the 
one exception of the Babcock tester. 
GEO. C. HUMPHREY. 
Wisconsin Ag’l College. 
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