Progeny Testing
By Dick Beamish, Lethbridge, Alta.
‘First year of a test designed to help stockmen weed inefficient units from their production lines was completed in July at Lethbridge’s Dominion Experimental Station. Results of the performance testing experiment were given at a field day on the station July 16 attended by 200 stockmen, scientists and journalists from as fa away as Winnipeg. Keen interest has been shown in the experiment ever since it started last December 10 because the view has been held that performance testing could give stockmen a yardstick by which to choose bulls that will pass on their progeny the ability to put on meat fast and cheaply.’
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