That lordly symbol of virility, the bull, is getting rarer. Dairy bulls on U.S. farms are constantly becoming victims of technological unemployment. Reason: the rising popularity with dairy farmers of artificial insemination.
The improved technique of artificial insemination allows one bull to do the work of 80 or more. So many more bull calves are now turned into veal before they reach maturity. In Nebraska, bulls have decreased by 3,000 since science stepped in to cuckold them. Some 20,000 Nebraska cows were test-tube bred last year and a statewide program is aiming at 70,000 by 1950.
Artificial insemination has many advantages. On the...
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