VALUE OF THE BULL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

VALUE OF THE BULL

‘•WORTH 20 GOOD COWS.” “One good dairy bull is worth 20 good cows,” said Air. Thomas Scott in [an address to the Hampshire Milk re--1 cording Society at Winchester recently. Mr. Scott is engaged in the investigation of records of bulls for both the South Devon Cattle Society and the English Guernsey Society, and believes that while much benefit, has been derived from the recording of cows probably much more will come from the proper keeping of bull records. Air. Scott says he can go round his own (Devonshire district and find 50 I good cows sooner than he could find one gootl bull. In the course of his ’ survey of South Devon cattle he had come to the conclusion that only onethird of the number of bulls were fit, and the remaining two-thirds were probably doing more harm than good. The only sure way of obtaining a successful bull, he says, is to get hold of one that had already proved he was a producer of good milking stock, but a problem arose as to the choice of a young bull. Alany uf the best bulls were slaughtered before they had a chance of finding out their merits, but by suitable regulations it might be possible to select young bulls with promise, and see they were not slaughtered till tho time camo when they could be tested as to whether they wer really good or not. Mr. Scott told tho Winchester gathering that he thought the bull sale business wanted organising a little if British breeders were to main lain their supremacy as the world’s best breeders of dairy cattle In South Devon

they were fortunately situated; their breed covered a small district, ami there was scarcely any other breed ir that district. But as a whole the or ganisation of the bull business was not going to be so easy, because Uu man)' breed' -