Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-18
LIV c STOCK.
THE sHoErHoRy spEcULAToR,

SECOND week i@ December, briefly referred
TO the startling changes which have taken
place in one year:
!" while we may know that we have lost
Il. some OF our specllations, and that some
Of the evils las prophesied one year ago. OF
sefecting on certain old and long establish
ed pediyrees have been the cause CT not only
speculators, but of some Of those who nave
made Shorthorn breeding an all-llie blsi-
NESS, losing money, we have the satisfaction
of knowing. however. that il is q rare thing
for q man TO offer his own breeding that he
does not get a fair remuneration for MS
stock. As long as that is. the case we can
well afford to encourage the breeding OF
good cattle.
If there have been abuses (and we think
there have been) attending the business, we
are here to try to correct them. LII fact,
Hourishing times are sure to bring abuses in
any business, causing inexperienced men to
embark in enterprises that they knew but
little about and2when tho tide turns they
are ever ready to give it up, and not ire
auently blame the whole profession tor the
abuses they themselves have brought on the
business.
IL we would reflect q moment we would
know that our business could not always
flourish with the present state OF specula-
ton and public sales. 1t is safe to say that
every public sale that is made adds from ~
to S25 expense on every animal sold. SO that
when it comes to selling animals from one
tc half a dozen times a year one can easily
figure out that things must change before
very long, because soone Or. later, some.
body Is going to lose money,
The railroads that transport them from
point to, point, tho press that advertlses
them and the %auctioneer who does the SELL
ing. ali,haye to- be paid, whether the man
hose the money who sells them or not.
The sooner the faint. even, Of you-tickle-
Observation-Disclosures policy ends the better
FOR tile general business. When breeders
sell because they have a surplus, anu buy
ers purchase only when they need them, we
may be certain, though we should have to
take less for our offerings at first, that our
business is Oh a more sure foundation; and
those buying can be assured that the judi
cicus Investments that they make VIII repay
them. because, when such is the case, we
may depend that the specie basis OF Short
horn breeding viii have been reached
"A paper, contributed by Judge Henry
Craven, of Indiana, and read tosthe Conyen-
tion By the Secretary, contained. many sig
aiiicant passages. We quote:
"Again, ii we can stimulate prices greatly
men DESTROYS OF large profits III their bust
ness, stimulated with ideas Of grand specu-
Iations will be found III abundance who will
slways prefer great profits to those which
NAV be found barely renrmeratiye, ard
hence. many men wholly inexperienced will
be inclined to go into business as fortune
seekers. But whas is to be the ultimate ef
feet in the WAY of encouraging this impor-
tant interest. and the Increase OF the aver
sge excellence OF Sborthorn cattle OF this
country is another and a very different ques
tion, and II the cattle are to be improved 1t
: their average excellence IN the hands OF Thu
class of men, | am very much mistaken as (
what il required to constitute Il good Short
horn breeder, and shout the time some 0
sllose %enterprising spectators undertake +
sell and dispose of the offspring OF thel
original stock, purchased at fancy prices
they may not, and very certainly will not
be able to command prices corresponding
with their expectations as stimulated BY tn
exeitement of the time in which they mad
their purchases. and hence, disconragemeu
will in due time be thrown over the cntir
business 10y the very men who at this tim