The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-05
Second Best are Very Good.

year, because they have not The means
to purchase fancy animals at fancy prices
to breed from. They have not The
means to purchase $40, 900 heifers OF
$50, 600 bulls ; and so they buy nothing
and keep on using animals for breeding
purposes that cause their stock to dete.
riorate rather than improve. There is
no necessity, in raising cattle, for run
ming to either extreme. If q farmer
cannot have the best stock, there is nc
good reason why he should have only
the poorest. In many respects a sort
of middle course is the best and the
safest one.
IL q man wishes to make money as q
breeder of fancy stock, and has the
means to do it, there is no doubt about
the way he should proceed. He should
purchase the best animals to be had,
whether in this country, Canada, or Eu-
rope. LIN this way he will produce finer
animals than have ever been produced,
and there seems to be no limit to the
prices that stock fanciers will pay for
superior animals. The breeding of
short-horns, especially, has become a
sort of elegant pursuit, and men of
means have adopted it, not only as a
way of making money, but of crafty
ing their taste. In England, short
horn breeders from a class midway be-
tween those whose tastes lead them to
study literature, art and science, and
those who give themselves up to pleas.
ure.
If, on the other hand, a farmer wishes
to improve his stock with a view of get
ting more milk from his COWS and more
and better beef from his steers, it is not
necessary to purchase animals that COM
mand the price stock fanciers arewilling
to pay for them. They can accomplish
the ends they desire in a much cheaper
way. In truth, the progeny of a $40, 600
bull will be too valuable to use for CIV
ing milk or making beef for the butcher.
The bull is too valuable to use on any
thing but thoroughbred animals, and
for this purpose alone he should be
Kept
Farmers can always obtain very good
bulls for the purpose of improving their
stock at very reasonable prices. Some
times they can obtain them at an almost
nominal price. This is the case when
professional breeders have an animal
that has some slight defect, which
would disqualify it in the eyes of those
looking for the best. Professional
breeders, whose establishments are
tied by buyers, do not care to keep
such animals in their herds, and are
often glad to dispose OF them at almost
any price. The slight defect might dis
in the next generation, and it
may not be of a nature TO injure the
of an animal either for giving milk
or for making superior beef.
During the past few years, color has
lad much to do in determining the
value of fine stock. Fashion, which is
out another name for folly, demanded
hat q short-horn should be red in
'rder to bring the highest price. Roam
n spotted short-horns wereworth much
ess to sell to professional breeders,
white animals of pure blood, fine
,edigree, and faultless shape could not
'e sold at all TO breeders. In truth.
he breeders and owners of these white
did not want them on their es-
ates, for the reason that they gave the
impression that their stock of fashion
bile color wer likely to produce ami
nails whose color was not fashionable.
hey wanted herds of uniform red
or at last no further departure
rom red than is roam.
Nov white COWS will give as much
nix as roam m 3 and white steers will
as much as red ones viii. They
re as likely to be good breeders, and
tossibly after a few years white may be
ne fashionable color for short horns.
indeed, the prejudice against white as
color for short-horns is fast disap-
earring, and those who bought white
ninnals q few years ago and fed them
roperiy are now receiving large div
lends on small Investments. Some OF
aem have very fair herds of pure !
loods, and large numbers of cattle in
thich short-norn blood predominates.
We have mentioned these al a few of
be- ways by which farmers OF small
leans may, BY q little tact and a small
xpenditure of money, improve their
iock. By changing the bull every (,
scond or third year all the evils Of in !
nd-in breeding may be avoided, and
change may often be made within /
circuit Of a few miles without the !
rpenditure Of any money. Ii one
lrmer has not a sufficient number of
to Justify him ia buying a blooded !
uil, then several farmers in the same !
elghhorhood should unite in the en- Z
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