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Class Leaders in Agricultural College Herds

Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

ABSTRACT

Probably every agricultural college in the United States has a herd of dairy cattle. It would not seem to be possible to successfully carry on the dairy work at the institution without some dairy animals. Since there are four principal breeds of dairy cattle that have any general distribution throughout the country, the ideal condition would be to have each represented at the several institutions. A herd of dairy cattle at the state agricultural college serves a number of purposes: (1) Furnishes animals for instructional work in dairy cattle judging; (2) Furnishes animals for experimental work; (3) Furnishes milk for use in instructional work; (4) Furnishes milk for experimental work; (5) Serves as an ideal toward which the breeders of the state may strive. Very likely many college herds do not, to the fullest extent, serve all the functions mentioned. Especially is the last mentioned difficult to perform. Many, if not most, of the colleges have been greatly hampered from lack of funds for the purchase of foundation females or the proper kind of sires to successfully carry on breeding operations.