Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-17

cannot substantiate, and ask the pub
Usher TO assume d responsibility which
YOU dare not face. Pardon this digreS
sion; but the air is at ii mes sulphurous
with charges and cOunter-charges, as to
dishonesty in breeding. Aid it would
often make the accusers tremble in their
boots should they be compelled to back
up in court what they want the press
to do. "for the good of the public and
its Owp legal prosecution and pecuniary
loss. There is a right way and wrong
way To do these things, and the right
one Is by producing the evidence. Bu
to sum it up briefly. honesty is certalul,
the best policy for the breeder, and 10
the honest breeders must the country
trust the management Cf its ine STOCK
interests. These command respec5 TO:
themselves, inspire confidence in the
value of good stock. and place Improve
ment at premium in the popular esti-
nation.
The breeder should also be generous,
public-SpirIted and unseltiSh. 1t is pro-
verbialthat those whose special attention
is devoted To live stock business in any
line,tO phrase it popularly y,are"exceeding'
in the nature ct the case, is the foremost
stOckman in the country, needs to be d
great deal more than simply "clever."
He should be man of the broadcast
view and pronounced public spirit, and
MS neIghoOrS should be able To flock to
him tor the championship OF progressive
ideas and the support of progressive
enterprises. His thoughts should 90 be-
yond current transactions and immedi-
ate profits. The good of those to whom
he sells should be esteemed second Only
to his own good, and the two should al
ways be considered aS thoroughly COM
patlble. Though he may be breeder
of swlne,he should not be a hog himself
1t should be his pride to have his Gus
TONER profit by what he has sold him, to
be conscious that every animal he sends
from his farm is in some measure bo-
nanZa to the collection of stock in which
it is to be placed, and that the entire
tendency of his work is to elevate the
public appreciation of good stock and its
relation to the profits of the farm. He
should so treat every patron that sub
sequent meeting with him can be looked
forward to only with pleasure, and SO
that each new one shall be al enlarge
ment of his personal Trends.
The selfish breeder can nev
er know satisfaction of this kind. Each
accession of patronage is only, in his
eyes, new opportunity to squeeze out
of somebody the last available cent iof
profit. When customer departs for
bone he is done with him, or often
hopes be is, as second meeting is in
some sen e dread. As to the public
good, that never enters into his calcula-
tiOnS; and as to any profit made subse-
quently off the stock he sells, he is only
that he could not in some way
get that himself. This man is essentially
a jealous one, and the success of
breeder is to him the next
thing to d personal atfront. The world
was made for him, and there is mis-
take SOmew here whenever any one else
happens to make any of the money float
ing around i'll it. The poor fellow lives
In kind of valley, So utterly befugged
by personal interests and considerations
that he sees nothing beyond himself, and
enjoys none of the sunshine in which his
more manly neighbOrs, Oh the surround
ing hills, live, and through which their
view, above his mists, is clear aud un-
obstructed. The conversion of this sour
citizen into being with neigbborly
feelings and broadened instincts is a
work worthy of the philanthropist. Of
course he don't live i'll Belmont county,
but missionary efforts should not be
at home, although like chari-
ty, they should begin there.
The public-spirlted breeder is ac,uated
by the principle of live and let nve' He
THAT there is quite differ
5nce between competitor and enemy, and
the real significance of competition is
This is the only correct view
which can be held in regard to the
business. Wholly disregarding
yhe fact that 1t is intrinsically right to
De unSeltiSn, 1t cannot be successfully
1lSpnted that it practically pays one
~ look after the interests of the breed
erS around him. The best profits of
are made when locality es-
jabIlSheS reputation for the number
and character of its breeders, as we'll as
stock they produce. Every honorable |
counts one in the number to
attract attention and patronage to the
in which he lives If you
lave twenty neighbors breeding the |
same stock you are breeding, it will pay |
you to let that fact be widely known =
md if yon are isolated it is to your ad- |
vantage that this circumstance be con-
conceded. If half dozen of the sheep
nen of Eastern Ohio could drive all of |
heir competitors into distant part of
he country, to do it would be to put a
lnife to the throat of their own business.
rs it now is, hundreds of sheep breed
ng farms stretch away across the coun-
ry, and as a consequence the United
states and the world of wool producers
now of the deserved fame of your
inc wool sheep. One might search
widely and in vain for better Illus
ration Ot the advantages of local COM
'etition than are found right here.
The formation of local associations of
'reeders such as the one recently Or
.anized at this place, devoted to foster
ng the public admiration Of fine stock,
nlarging the ranks of breeders, and
the membership in every /
'oint of vantage in their business, is the
atural outgrowth of 4 manly and gen.
rous sentiment among local stockmen
Another characteristic of the breeder
houfd be perfect faith in the stock he
5 producing. If he really doubts the
Xcellence of his chosen breed, and comes
o think that there is something in the
anne line much better, he is in false
osItlon, and one in which he must al
Ways be more or less inSincere. A change :
o strain of stock more to his mind IS
OF always practicable but where it can
e made with reasonable difficulty, the
tep is certainly advisable. Otherwise.
the breeder be az honest man, his
dvocacy of his own stock must be weak
nd balf-hearted,and he must constantly
eel measure of dissatisfaction with
hat he is doing. If he is believer In
ne superiority of the Ho!stein, he is out
his element in breeding Jerseys; and,
n the other hand, d Jersey enthusiast
'Ould be out of place in handling Dutch
4ttle, ShOrthorns, Devons or Heretords. I
counts powerfully with the purchaser .