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A BIG FRAMED, HEAVY MUSCLED, grovrthy bull, raised by Bob Anderson was the top performing senior Angus on the bull testing nroeram at Culpeper. The vital statistics on this Rito bred bull aref 205 day weight, 632 pounds; 365 day weight, 1210 pounds; and weight per day of age a whopping 3.31 pounds. Rappahannock bred bulls have out performed all Angus bulls on the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association bull testing program fer eight out of the 19 years this program has been in existence. County cattle breeders who have owned the top record of performance tested bulls in past years are Ned Johnson, Ray Cannon and Newbill
^Bob Anderson’s bull and 39 other Angus, 19 Polled Hereford, seven Hereford, one Charolais, two Simmental and two Brangus bulls will be auctioned off to the highest bidders next Saturday, January 15, Noon at the Culpeper Agricultural Enterprises, four miles South of Culpeper on Route 29. On Saturday, January 29, 65 bulls will be sold at the Red House Bull Evaluation Center, Red House, Virginia. And the Junior bulls will sell at Culpeper and Red House in late February and early March. Only the top two thirds of the bulls tested will be sold. The rest have been sent home. These sales offer commercial breeders a good opportunity to select herd bulls that will improve profits. However, the commercial breeder will have to use good judgement in selecting his bulls. Just because a bull is sold through a R. O. P. bull sale doesn t assure that he will automatically make improvement in your next years calf crop. Some of our better Rappahannock commercial breeders will have to carefully select from amongst the top half or top third of these bulls to substantially increase rate of gain and conformation of future calf crops.
WINTER TETANY—Grass tetany, milking tetany, winter staggers or whatever you want to call it, cow death loss from magnesium deficiency or imbalance, appears to be highest in Rappahannock from Christmas to Easter. With about 95% plus of our tetany problems occuring between Thanksgiving and Mothers Day. If you are not feeding a magnesium supplement and your cows have recently calved, or about due to calf, suggest you start now. It is just darn good insurance. □
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