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Rappahannock Artificial breeding Association completed its first year of operation successfully and April started tlie second year our dairymen are facing the future with a goal » of more efficient ^producing cows through the many advantages offered by their organization.
With declining milk and butter markets no better goal could be established as authorities state “it is efficient production of the individual cows in a herd that counts.” _In fact dairymen themselves prove* this statement in the manner they price their heifers bred for high pro—duction. Ask Woody Coughlin or Glenn Williams what sort of a price tag was on the heifers seen at the T. T. Curtis faim in Orange or at Frank Walker’s herd in Madison, Incidentally these two men are real dirt farmers who are in the business to make a good living and have been doing as well as anyone in the east. Furthermore they are well established but even so are breeding artifically< Thus you can see why I’m so pleased to know that any Rappahannock farmer can, through artifical breeding, breed his cow to as good a bull as can be found most any place at a price well within his reach. Many of the farmers who have the foresight to take advantage of this opportunity could not pay $150.00 for a 6-10 month old production bred heifer but
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