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NEED A BULL? Yoh should set performance minimums for bulls good enough to use and Improve your herd. In type he should grade “choice: or “fancy". As a calf on dam! he should have gained 2<poundsj per day or better and weigh 500 pounds or'better at 205 days of age. As a yearling he should weigh 800 pounds or better. On feed test, he should have a daily gain of 2.4 pounds or better. If no BCIA records are available, weigh the brute and divide by days old to get weight-per-day-of-age. WDA should be above 2.45 pounds at 210 days, 2.2 pounds at 365 days, 2.1 pounds <® 16 months, and 1.9 pounds at 24 months. BULL SOURCES-The Performance Tested Bull Sale at Culpeper March 12th includes; 41 Herefords (15 Polled), 71 Angus and three Shorthorn. I saw Alex Stumpf from Rapidan while at State Beef Cattleman’s Meeting he reported having several head Angus bulls of breed ingage . and
A. Y. STQKES wgs made a director of the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association at its annual meeting held in conjunction with the Virginia. Beef Cattle .Association meeting held February 12th and 13th at Natural Bridge. Those attending from Rappahannock in addition to Mr. Stokes were: A. H. Buckner, Hi; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Johnson, Jr., J. Rodes Brown and your county agent.
A-I Technician needed. Edwin Scroggins, Jr. has become manager at Mt. Vernon * Stock Farm. This means we I must find someone to train as \ technician for the Rappahan- 1 nock Artificial Cattle Breed- ! ing Association. Applications
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