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j Dairymen cannot expect to get heifjers and cows able to produce SOOlbs. |to 8001bs. butter fat from a bull if j the bull's dams and sires were able Ito produce only 2001b. to 4001b. of fat, according to John M. Eward, live stock expert, in the Prairie Farmer. To get high record heifers one must seek bulls with parents having high records. The answer to the problt^ "How am I to tell what a bull's: heifers will be able to produce ?" is to use the "tried sire," Mr Evvard states. The "tried sire" is an assured proposition. The sire with an inferior pedigree is a wild gamble as contrasted to the investment type of sire, or 'tried sire." The use of inferior sires for even short periods in the herd will cause shortage of milk and fat production in the herd for generations.. Hence it is important that the prospective sire of the future milkers should be chosen with extreme care. The old statement that "the bull is half the herd" is only partly true, due to the fact that he soon will dominate the entire herd.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 32, 21 April 1931, Page 8
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191THE TRIED SIRE. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 32, 21 April 1931, Page 8
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