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THE RURA L, 
NEW-VOR KI-C I>! 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BUYING A PUREBRED BULL. 
It would seem to me that the average 
dairyman is not entirely level-headed on 
this question of engaging in the breed¬ 
ing of purebred cattle. I have a sus¬ 
picion that a large percentage of these 
men have never been in the dairy busi¬ 
ness for themselves before, and get the 
idea that they should “get in right” on 
the start by investing in full bloods, and, 
by the way, you can almost always spot 
one of these men as soon as you hear 
him speak, for he will inquire if you have 
any “Thoroughbreds” to sell. (Just 
think of alluding to a big bony pot-bel¬ 
lied Holstein cow as a “thoroughbred.”) 
Of course everyone who keeps a dairy 
should own a purebred bull, and I say 
“everybody” advisedly. It is poor policy 
to depend on some other man’s bull, and 
it is hardly fair to the other man 
either. The main trouble is that it is 
often inconvenient to take cows away at 
any time, and the result is that some of 
our cows fail to breed and we suffer a 
loss much greater than the cost and main¬ 
tenance of a bull of our own.- In my own 
As an illustration : Suppose that Smith 
buys 100 cows that on an average have 
official tests averaging 20 pounds of but¬ 
ter in a week. From these cows he 
raises 200 heifer calves, all sired by the 
one bull. At maturity, if these young 
cows do not average better than their 
dams, but very little credit should be 
given the sire. Still a bull with 200 
tested daughters would be considered a 
marvel. And, do you know, just this 
sort of thing is being done? It most 
certainly is. Men are pooling their 
money and scouring (he country for the 
best cows they can find. These cows are 
brought together and bred to certain 
bulls. These bulls are producing a lot 
of good calves, and they ought to. Other 
men arc mortgaging their farms to buy 
the bull calves sired by these favored 
lords of the barnyard. Do you suppose 
that they are getting the worth of their 
money ? 
A good many have the idea that if they 
cannot go in for one of these “boomed” 
animals they may just as well keep out. 
when the fact of the case is that .$100 
or .$200 judiciously expended in the pur¬ 
chase of a bull would secure just as good 
an animal as $1,000 or $2,000 spent for 
A SEYEX-YEAR-OLD GUERNSEY COW. 
case, the getting with calf of one valu¬ 
able cow that I had been having trouble 
in breeding fully paid for my registered 
bull. 
Then again, the percentage of profit 
on a purebred bull in use in a native or 
grade herd is much greater than it would 
be in a purebred herd. One can depend 
upon a grade cow, sired by a purebred 
bull, as being worth from $10 to $25 
more than she would be if sired by a 
grade. So, when one considers the price 
at which a purebred bull calf (or an old¬ 
er one either) can be bought, it would 
seem that no one would continue to use 
grades. Then I would buy a registered 
heifer calf, if I were reasonably sure that 
I could raise the calf into a well-devel¬ 
oped cow. If I did not know how to 
raise a calf at all, I would first experi¬ 
ment on grades. 
In buying the calf, select a good in¬ 
dividual. This is imperative if one would 
expect to get good results. Don’t, under 
any circumstances, be fooled into buying 
a worthless calf just because it is trying 
to keep from cancellation a valuable 
pedigree. Always bear in mind that the 
value of a pedigree is problemetical. 
What the cow or the bull has done is 
largely what they have been given a 
chance to do. Smith buys a bull and 
places him at the head of a big herd of 
the best cows that money will buy. He 
keeps him until he is old, and keeps add¬ 
ing to his herd all the best cows that he 
can buy. The result is that Smith’s bull 
becomes the sire of a long list of “tested” 
daughters, and his name is valuable in a 
pedigree accordingly. Brown buys a full 
brother to Smith’s bull, and an equally 
good animal in every way. But Brown 
is a poor struggling farmer just working 
into a herd of purebreds. So his bull is 
used mostly for grades, and he sires but 
a few purebred daughters. The conse¬ 
quence is that he goes down in history 
as a “no account,” and his name in a 
pedigree amounts to nothing. Still the 
blood of Brown’s bull is just as valuable 
as that of Smith’s excepting for the ad¬ 
vertising worth of the more fortunate 
animal. In reality neither bull may 
have had much intrinsic value. 
an animal that seems to be worth that 
much to the uninitiated. But this is not 
saying that no bull is worth $2,000 or 
even much more than that. 
J. GRANT MOUSE. 
AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB. 
Two things were given special con¬ 
sideration at the annual meeting of the 
American Jersey Cattle club last week 
in New York city. These were the in¬ 
crease in registration fees for males from 
$1 to $5, and the proposed reduction of 
fees on cattle imported from the Island 
of Jersey. These questions both called 
out much discussion. The former came 
up as an amendment to tin hy-laws, to 
be submitted to the membership for a 
mail vote, and provided for an increase 
as above stated “in all cases wherein 
record of birth has not been filed, and 
also in all cases wherein the animal is 
over two years old at the date of appli¬ 
cation.” but if the date of birth, etc., has 
been filed then the fees to members shall 
be $1 and to non-members $2. The same 
fees were made applicable to females. 
The other proposition referred to was 
to reduce the fees on animals imported 
from the island from $100 to $10 for all 
animals that passed the registry of merit 
test there, and $25 for all others. On 
vote the proposition did not carry. It 
was then decided to investigate condi¬ 
tions to ascertain if some test basis could 
be fixed for the levying of the fees on 
island imports. 
Several others were considered and will 
be submitted to the membership. Among 
the more important of these were the 
following: 
Permitting the change of names of an¬ 
imals which have not been printed in 
the Herd Register, provided application 
to make the change has been made to tin 1 
secretary within a year and a fee of 
$5 has been paid ; concerning the use of 
numerals in names which must be used 
in sequence with the dates of birth; re¬ 
fusing to register animals under names 
that are misleading, or profane; requir¬ 
ing that twins be registered at the same 
time “unless one of the twins is dead 
and (he death has been reported to the 
club”; empowering the executive com¬ 
mittee to instruct the secretary to regis¬ 
ter an animal in case of the refusal of 
the owner of the sire or of the breeder of 
an _ animal to sign an application for 
registration, etc.; requiring the seller of 
an animal to furnish a certificate of 
transfer on forms provided by the secre¬ 
tary without cost; permitting agricul¬ 
tural colleges and experiment stations to 
('liter herds of Jersey cattle at the same 
rates as paid by members; provided that 
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