Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 13, DeMotte, Jasper County, 20 February 1948 — COUNTY ABA ORGANIZED [ARTICLE]

COUNTY ABA ORGANIZED

Henry Peterson Named Temporary President; 1200 Cows Pledged; Life Membership $lO ' The Jasper County Artificial 1 Breeders’ Association was organi ized yesterday in the east court room. Temporary officers and a board of directors were elected | until a membership drive has been completed and 1200 cows or more have been signed. The memj bers will then elect a permanent board of directors which will then hire an inseminator, set up on office and manage the business of the association. The temporary officers elected were Henry Peterson of Keener i Township, President; Chester | Wortley of Jordan, vice president; 1 Ralph Amsler of Marion township, secretary treasurer; with Clayton Porter of Barkley, Ed Lehman of Carpenter, Dwight Proctor of Newton and Geo. Kamminga of Union as board members. These men and others in these townships are soliciting memberships. The membership fee is $lO for a life membership and a two dollar deposit on each cow the member expects to breed artificially during the year up to March Ist 1949. The service fee is seven dollars per cow which includes three services if needed. The remaining five dollars of the fee is paid at the time of the first service. The membership drive expected to be completed before the 15th of March. The association is expecting to be in operation by the 15th of May. Only semen of proved bulls will be used and only bulls of the Holstein, Guernsey and Jersey are now being used. The American Index for each of # the 25 bulls being used at present ranges from 465 to 635 pounds of butterfat. This means that the daughters of the bulls are producing approximately 500 pounds of butterfat per year. The average cow in Indiana today produces 180 to 200 pounds of butterfat per year. Ed Cannon, ’ dairy specialist from Purdue University discussed the .development of the Artificial breeding program and stated that the use of proved bulls used in artificial breeding would be as great an asset to the dairy industry in Indiana as hybrid seed corn has been to the gram farmer. The DHIA record in 1946-47 shows that the feed cost for • a cow producing 167 pounds of butterfat was $lO5 with a net income of $65. For cows producing 261 pounds of B. F. the feet cost was sll7 with a net income of $149.01 or SB4 increases in income for sl2 increase in feed cost. Cows producing 351 pounds of butterfat had a feed cost of $127 with a net income of $224 or an increase of $159- over the income from the 167 pounds cow. The Otto DeYoungs spent Sunday with the Bill Mays at Remington. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Struble of Gary spent Sunday with her folks, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Frame.