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JERSEY BULL
If you want a good registered Jersey Bull just
ready for service, write
HUGH CRITZ.
Starkville, Miss.
WANTED*
Five, maybe ten. Pure Bred Jersey Cows. State
only what you will guarantee. State ave, calf,
whether registered or not, and what per cent but
ter fat. WARREN M. COX, Columbus, Mias.
UJi IITm Breed Sows, Car Choice Hay, 4.000
VinniCU stalks, Ribbon Cane, Peas Quote
prices. M. L. PEACOCK, Shaw, Miss.
One Pure-bred Red Poll
Riill For Sale—as
are good.
Also have one Portable 10-horse power Gasoline
Engine. Fairbanks Morse. Will sell cheap, or ex
change for live stock Price. 1300. Has been run
90 days. For further information, call on or write
L. G. BRIDGEFORTH,
^ L Crawford, Miss.
$25 Jerseys $25
A grand lot of fall Boars and Gilts, by McNeil's
Model and Prince Wonder II, out of Red Wonder
and Bell Chief Sows. Pedigrees furnished.
GILLOCK & SON
Route No. 10, Nashville, Tenn.
Kentucky Mammoth Jacks
Jacks, jennets and saddle horses. 260 bend to
■elect from. Tam worth swine, nil ages. Cata
logues now ready.
J. F. COOK ft CO..
Lutaftoi, Kj.
PA UnOC ol the very beet breed
, la. nlluu In*. White Plymouth
a we sswww an sired by my
ooeka that won let and 2nd prises at Green
field, Tenn. Prices that will please you.
W. & POPE. Verona. IIfas'
Ss(i lor sale by
CLEM LEA.
Sklmxk, Tenn.
Stallions and Business Horses
I have a lot of splendid saddle and harness stal*
lions that are the kind to breed to elevate your
horse stock. They are good ages, good site, good
style, sound, gentle, and highly bred. Will gladly
mail list of what 1 have to any one writing for it,
and if y ju will come, I will sell you just as low in
price as I can, and guarantee just as represented.
W. M. KIRBY,
Box 28. Bowling Green. Ky.
DUROC - JERSEY PI6S
Registered. Ancestry unsurpassed. No bet
ter breed ol hoga
W. C. GUTHRIE Port Gibeon, Miss.
25 GRADE RED POLLS
Crossed with Devon; Springers. Grade
Red Poll Bull Calves.
HAT—Car lots, or lass, to suit
J.BURRUSS McGEHEE,
LAUREL HILL P. O.. LA
Name this paper.
mm.a poll i TLC.-Ksiutend
Immune to tick fever. Young bulla h^ff
en lor tale. A large herd of oarefullg untti
and well bred oowe to aeleet from. Come and
■ee them. Addreee
J. B. BRIDGE. Manager t
or. W. & TURNER.
Magowah Meadow* stock Farm,
_R. F. D. l, Crawford. Mtea
BLUE RIBBON
BERKSHIRES
Bred Gilts all sold. Have several handsome lit
ters by three of the best Herd Boars in America,
out of 600 lb. sows and up. Our 1909 winnings in
cluded State Championship and at Shreveport. La.,
» *r ® herds, 5 states competing, surpassed
all others. Our correspondence is increasing enorm
ously. Inquirers pieaBe send 2c stamp for reply
FRIERSON & HOLLINGSWORTH.
Shreveport, La., or Couahatta, La.
Nice Tennesse Jacks, Stallions
Gordon Boy, No. 33160, by Wilken Roy. No. 3803
Boy Wilkes Combination Stallion, for sale by
J. T. GARNER, Grenada, Miss.
Poland China boss
O) fancy Brooding.
White and Silver Wyandottes and B. P. R/wi.,
Hens, $1.60. Cockerels $2.00 and $2.60 each.
A. F. TUGGLE, R. F. D. No. L Brush Creek. Tenn.
LARGE BERKSHIRES
Premier Long-fellow, Lord Premier's Rival and
Masterpiece strains. Young pigs, tried brood
sows and bred and open gilts for sale Get a pig
by the great Longfellows Rival 112747 the greatest
•bow and breeding boar of today
JACKSON STOCK FARM
Little Rock, Ark. |
How to Grow Live Stock in the South
IX.—VALUE OF A PURE BRED DAIRY BULL AND
HOW TO BUY ONE.
Under Ordinary Conditions a Good Pure Bred Bull May Be
Easily Worth $750 More Than a Grade or Scrub—Farmers in
Every Neighborhood Should Combine and Purchase a First
Class Sire of Some Dairy Breed.
—XCEPT IN pure bred herds,
from which the males pro
duced are sold for breeding
purposes, the value of a pure bred
dairy bull is determined by the value
of his daughters as dairy cows. The
extent to which the progeny of a
pure bred bull excel those of a scrub
or grade bull Is the measure of his
Increased value. A bull may, during
an average life-time, sire 100 daugh
ters, but If we allow one-half that
number, then the difference in the
value of these 50 cows above that of
a similar number sired by a scrub or
grade bull represents his greater
value.
$750 Not Too High Estimate of
Valne.
If 50 daughters of a pure bred bull
each produce 10 pounds more butter
than 50 daughters of a grade or
scrub bull, the pure bred bull Is
worth $750 more than the scrub or
grade. Taking the useful life of a
dairy cow as 6 years, 10 pounds more
per year gives 60 pounds more but
ter per daughter and 3,000 pounds
more butter for the 50 daughters.
The value of 3,000 pounds of butter
at 25 cents a pound is $750.
If we limit the number of daugh
ters produced by a pure bred bull to
25, and reduce their increase in pro
ducing capacity over the daughters
of a scrub sire to 5 pounds of butter
each, the value of tho pure bred sire
is still $187.60 greater than that of
the scrub.
The first figure, $750, much more
nearly represents the difference in
value between the pure bred dairy
sire and the grade or scrub, than
does the second or $187.50. Fifty
daughters are not too many daugh
ters to expect from a bull during an
average life time, and they will each
produce 10 pounds more butter year
ly than would the daughters of a
scrub bull from the same mothers.
“Kill the Grade Ball!**
me vaiue or a gooa aairy duii,
which la used for from 6 to 8 years
In a herd of from 10 to 20 average
dairy cows, may easily be 91.000
greater than that of a scrub or grade
bull. It Is this fact, which has been
demonstrated In numerous Instances,
that gives force to the “battle cry”
of those working for the develop
ment of the dairy Interests of the
South, “Kill the Grade Bull."
It Is not unusual to find the differ
ence between the values of the but
ter produced, by the best and the
poorest cows In a herd amount to
from $50 to 975 In a single year, and
the average cow frequently produces
$25 more than the poorest. In fact,
the differences In the value of dairy
cows In the same herd, where feed
ing and care are the same, are so
great that practically all the profits
are made by 60 per cent of the cows.
In view of these facts, the Im
portance of a pure bred sire, from a
family of large producers, can
scarcely be over-estimated. Good
care and liberal feeding are essential
factors in the Improvement of the
dairy herds, but these combined will
not do more than will a really first
class sire in permanently increasing
the value of the herd.
In spite of the foregoing well es
tablished facts a large share of those 1
who keep cows for the nillk they pro
duce, and raise the heifers born for
the same purpose, pay little regard
to the breeding of the sire. Most of
the milk cows of the South probably
have scrub or grade sires and a large
part of the pure bred bulls used are
from cows of ordinary or Inferior
dairy capacity.
Almo<?t any sore of a pure bred
dairy sire is Infinitely better than
any scrub or grade because of his
breeding along strictly dairy lines
and the greater number of good
dairy cows among his female ances
tors, but the difference In the values
of different pure bred sires Is
scarcely less than that between the
pure bred and the scrub.
Small Dairymen Need Awakening.
TV. A a# a .aa J JaIa^ aIaa
• |#MI VM€M»V Vi « Of VVM Will I J PI I V,
consequently means something more
than simply the purchase of a pure
bred bull. Many have not yet ad
vanced to the point of paying 925 to
950 for a pure bred bull calf when a
grade may be had for 910; but be
fore great Improvement can be made
In the average dairy cow of our ter
ritory, the breeders of milch cows
must also learn that It may be much
more profitable to pay 9200 for one
pure bred bull than to buy another
for 925.
These statements do not apply, as
some of our readers seem to think,
to the dairymen alone. They apply
to every person who raises a heifer
calf to be used for dairy purposes
In fact, It Is the small breeders of
dairy cattle rather than the lnrger
ones who need most to Improve the
quality of the sires used. The larger
breeders, or those who may be term
ed dairymen, have pretty generally
awakened to the value of better
dairy sires; but the bulk of the dairy
cows of the South are produced by
the men who keep two or three cows,
and these still need to be made to ap
preciate the real worth, to them, of
a good dairy bull.
How are good pure bred dairy
bulla to be placed at the disposal of
the small breeder? Many of the**>
could now use better bulls If they
appreciated their true value and
were willing to pay a small service
fee. This fee Is usually far below
the value of the service. In fact, the
service fee of a really first-class bull
Is almost always far below what the
small breeder could afTord to pay.
How to Combine With Y'onr Neigh
bors and Huy a Good Rail.
But after all, the larger number of
those who keep one or two cows, and
also many of the smaller breeders
and dairymen, do not have available
the services of a first-class dairy bull.
How are these to be obtained? When
our farmers, even though they be
only raising one or two heifers a
year, wake up to the real value of a
first-class dairy sire. It will be easy
for any neighborhood to obtain and
keep a good bull, through a simple
and cheap co-operative management.
Let one or two public-spirited citi
zens or the Farmers’ Union, raise by
subscription enough monev to buy a
really first-class bull, say $200.
The amount of service which each
contributor Is to receive may be In
proportion to the amount, of money
given to the enterprise. Then select
PUROC JERSEY PIGS
from one of the oldmt breeder* in the South.
Illch In color. Bred In the Purple, also * few
bred itlta and now*. Write for prloea,
L. M WbitamhIOo Mulberry. Tens.
I Berkshire Hoy*. Cheviot Sheep. Antrim
Ooata. F.mbden and Touloua* Oeeea. Barr
ed and White P. Hock Chickens Oet <>ur
prices CL0VKRDAI.E STOCK FARM.
II. C- l>avldaon. Proprietor.
Onion, Tenneeaee.
Berfcshires of the Choicest Strains hi
America
Ply*, both aerca. aired by Charmer* Premier Hh.
aired by Ion) Premier 2nd. Alan bred aerwa to
aame. Male* old enouyh for aervlce. am aura I ran
C‘ mumf »og, my motto la do unto other* a* I would
re them do unto me Prompt reply to all In
quiries Alao prompt ahlpmeot*
L. D. KOBKKTS.
I r. D Nt L : : t : : Woodland. Miaa
MULES FOR SALE ~~
Three apana of rand. lant* work mu lea. mHrhhw
2.400 lha. per apan. Alao one • mailer apan
J. W. BRANAMAN. - - Elton. Miaa
(On the I. C„ aix mile* aneth at Jarkann )
RStHSTRRKD SHORT HORS RILL
One reytatared Short-bom Boll t ywnra aU.br
ante, at FT* Ctt Thla bull ia hy Fine Honda he to
Choice (rooda. the ,«t. 1/mlt World a Fair wtnaar.
Deep red cob*, and immune to tick fever
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brad ta Imported do* Prtro,
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ESSEX PIGS FOR SAL?
ritoto Ht*h Oaaa Ke«ie(*e*d Stork. lama Read.
Mar* (ram. than any Hot to Ora World. Ira Uni
r't IIo to up
C. LOTTSRflOSb • ( ffiul Hpru^tK MIm
Jersey Heifer
I bar* a nine. (north. ckl Jon, Hctfar that la
»)»•».» 2 raU-,1.. of tmty rtrh milk She ha a *r%nd
daughter of th« (T.V® (>.»(,»» Flyln* F«» and
Stolta* PoaU of iVaport. hire of «S> teated d.u*M
"* h™ ■wihhp into an eitra aood rerw
Matured cows and rwn* thin*. «J both aaaaa on
hand. If to'ravauaf art*.
S J WALLACE. Starkritta. Mlaa
HURSFS FOR SALE
You»>« If.wwM, ail rule well
and work anywhere, tine i*>ir ma'rhetl Her
Manre. well broke, work anywhere are! will breed
Onepalr matchol Hay f-unta*. A Jew 3 ynar old
JOHN M. WHITE.
Stark ville. ..... Mississippi.
Registered Yearling Bull Calf
Hea.l, f.e bah! .er>lre, I*am . 4-rail-n row Hire
f. * H“ .*• I** r*,nl aun of fhm. Hylne
Ko*. whoedd for i".V« QO l*rir«. flam, f « b.
hrf<’ * * *mrU‘ »»' >-« 8la. M< Neill. Mlaa
3 Good Jacks
Xs.'^r&r" b'«*
3 Good Combination Saddle
Driving Horses
I'rlcee low for r|*w of otork Write ua for fit
daacrlpUos, ASA W. ALJLICN CO.
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