Oklahoma farmer . Buy a Purebred Bull for $50 Services are Cheap if You Will Co-operate, and the Qualityof Cattle is Improved Rapidly. The Cost of the Animal is Split up Among the Neighbors. To PreventInbreeding the Bull is Passed on After a Few Years. WHEN DICK LYDTCK saw his neigh-bor patting the flat back of a Here-ford animal he strolled to that partof the show to help admire. Why dont you get a good purebredbull, Dick, and build up your herd?the neighbor asked. The principal reason is that I cantstand the strain of spending so much,replied Dick. Especially when I canopen the gate and use
Oklahoma farmer . Buy a Purebred Bull for $50 Services are Cheap if You Will Co-operate, and the Qualityof Cattle is Improved Rapidly. The Cost of the Animal is Split up Among the Neighbors. To PreventInbreeding the Bull is Passed on After a Few Years. WHEN DICK LYDTCK saw his neigh-bor patting the flat back of a Here-ford animal he strolled to that partof the show to help admire. Why dont you get a good purebredbull, Dick, and build up your herd?the neighbor asked. The principal reason is that I cantstand the strain of spending so much,replied Dick. Especially when I canopen the gate and use Wilsons old bullfor nothing. And so it goes. The ordinary farmercould not afford to pay the extra pricesfor pure blood, and continued to growscrub stuff. But with a bull jointlyowned by the community, there havebeen instances of a purebred bull cost-ing each member but $23. Started in Michigan in 1908. The co-operative bull association is acomparatively new institution in theUnited States. The first one of whichwe have any record was organized inMarch, 1908, at Blissfield, Mich. InEurope associations of this kind havebeen in exi
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