Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-08-07
Duties and Responsibilities of stock
Breeders.

The farmer who has the intelligence and
taste required to breed the best aud most APP.
proved sorts Of live stock, should be, and Us.
naly is, an influential character in his neigh
borhood 1t is therefore quite important that
10 respect to honor, morality and probity, he
should present an example worthy Of imiia-
ton. Aud while We do not wish to be undot-
stood that stock breeders in America are in
these particulars inferior to those Of other
countries, dudeed we think them usually
more reliable than European breeders,) We
desire to call attention to habit INDUCED IN
by many, Of speaking disparagngly Of other
peoples stock, which, we are quite sure the
intelligent reader will agree with u.s. need,
correction.
In illustration Of this, we may refer to q
sale catalogue before us, Of very respectable
parties, in which it is stated that none Of the
animals offered have the blood Of partcu-
lar importation. We have also frequently
heard purchasers complain that, in looking
about among different herds they have heard
the stock OF other breeders spoken Of in term.
that were not complimentary.
We are not an old 70 y, and do not Insist
that in all things the past was better than the
present aud yet We must say that We think
our first importers, the breeders who set about
the work of improving stock for the public
good lived in more cordial harmony than we
do, and were more scrupulously careful in
their observations upon each others stock
Such heightened liberaliiy tends to promote
public confidence in the integrity of breeders
Indeed, where it is not observed, where each
breeder acts upon the idea that success car
only be assured by disparaging other herds
purchasers are at loss to determine who ha.
good stock, or who to trust
We believe the great mass Of American
| breeders are honest and honorable men, aud
have, in their aocSs and herds just what the,
profess to have though there are some, aswil
be the case in all vocations, who cannot b,
depended upon. These should be shown n,
quarter by respectable men.
Very much of the disirust and want o
cordial cooperation prevailing may be attrib
uied to partialities for particular strains o
blood We all have right to indulge on
iaucies in these matters, but we have no rigi
to claim that other strains Of equally pur
blood are inferior to our chosen iavorte
Why, for example, should the short hor
breeder whose stock is descended from III
= .hatchem Cow, dccry the descendants of Mr.
Motto, because she was imported in ISL
/, without a pedigree, when the Maichem Gov
calyed as late as 1921 was sold to Mr. Bate
4 without pedigrce2 In each case the exec
ence of the produce immediate and renot,
, has attested the purity OF blood and it
, as unwise as it is ungenerous for rival breel
ers to speak disparugiugy Of each other
breeding.
= Gentlemen engaged in breeding dne stoc
should bear in mind that they are not in eac
others way, but that all are aiding in tt
great work of disseminating and maxim
known the excellence Of superior blood, an
that their relations ought to be as cordi
aud friendly as their interests are commo
and identical. National Stock J04rAal