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“The O. R. Johnson NFA chapter was elected to receive one of the bulls primarily because of the interest, and efforts of the Carver Regional Vo-ag students and instructor of vocational agriculture to produce better livestock in their community,” says Paul Hounshell, division superintendent of schools. Selection of chapters was made by the state office on the basis of applications showing number of head of livestock in the area served by the school, the need for a purebred sire, and evidence on the part of the students and teacher of vocational agriculture to make most effective use of -a purebred bull.
The young bull assigned to Hill, and the other 49 bulls distributed to >FFA and NFA chapters in the state, will be used to up-bred and improve the quality of livestock in the communities in which they are located. “This is not a ‘bullchain’ or purebred livestock project,” Johnson points out. While the young bulls, as soon as they become of breeding age, may be used with purebred beef cows, they will also be used (with grade cows to up-grade beef cattle and produce better veal calves.
The bulls came from Mill Iron Ranches in Texas. Covering 130,000 acres and operated on*’* a unique unit system, Mill Iron Ranches is the largest producer of registered Hereferds in the world. J. A. Hardy, Pulaski, and W. C. Dudley, Appomattox area supervisors of vocational agriculture, selected the 50 bulls purchased by Sears Roebuck Foundation, Inc., for the Virginia FFA.
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