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borne advantages ot artiicial breeding are:
1st. A small daryman (20 cows or less) can get the services of proven bulls known to transmit high production to his daughters where as very few dairymen can afford to buy such an animal even when for sale at any price!
2nd. Services from either Holstein, Guernsey or Jersey bulls are available through the Coop Bull Center, at Rocky Mount, Virgnia where very outstanding bulls are beng used.
3rd. Artificial breeding usually costs the owner of afew cows much less than is the cost of keeping a bull and there is not the risk involved in getting heifers of undiserable characterstics.
4th. Another cow to ship milk from can be kept in place of the bull usually kept.
Of course there are many other reasons which might be listed such as getting high producton in much less time comparatively speaking, better opportunity of disease control as well as disease preventon, etc.
Then too, there are headaches involved particularly in gettng such an association started. First oF all 11001200 cows are meeded to employ a full time inseminaton; 500 to even get started with a part-time technician. Secondly, the job of locating a technician
In Rappahannock probably the best solution to the latter will be locating and training a local member ©f the proposed associaton. Dr. W. L. Wake has indicated a keen desire to help in getting started
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