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Things the Livestock Registry Associations are Doing or Might Do to Improve the Present Merit of Their Breeds

Peoria, Illinois

Abstract

I am the secretary of a hog recording association. Just for the sake of the record and so there can be no misunderstanding, let me declare myself right at the start. In what is now about to be perpetrated, by request, the approach has not been scientific. Let's call it trial by error.

Just what are the various livestock recording associations doing to improve the value, efficiency and earning capacity of the breeds of livestock they promote? An article by V. A. Rice of Massachusetts State College, in one of the most widely circulated farm nationals, inferring that, aside from routine recording, most of them were doing exactly nothing and that the effectiveness of our show rings was past as a vehicle of breed improvement—had created rather widespread attention, fanned up some difference of opinion and posed a question worthy of exploration. When your President proposed a discussion of that question on this program it was accepted reluctantly but in guileless innocence.