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

that they should be entirely lgnored,and
10 the latter The attention of those who
NAV care to listen in the next half hour
| is directed.
1t can be taken for granted that no
one who is SO highly interested in
his business as TO lay aside everything
and attend an Institute devoted TO IL,
| will dispute the value of good blood,
and the desirablebess of its introduc
tion into every animal organism which
consumes grain aad demands care. And
supposng this to be admitted, it fol-
lows that the country has a pressing
need of men de,oted to the industry of
breeding and disseminating fine stock
\ moments reflection will convince any
one that our domestic animals, of ali
material things by which we are sur
rounded, contribute per Sc more than al
most any other class 10 our necessities,
our comforts, and our pleasures, not to
speak of them as source of pecunlary
profit. Without particularizing just now
as To how this is done,lt Is apparent that
upon the work of the breeder depends
the character. the usefulness and the
value OF these animals, and that to him
the country oa es much of the goJd de-
rived from them i'll service, in food in
wealth.
The relation of the breeder to the ma
teTial progress of the United States is
different at this time from what it has
ever been before. IL has always been d
matter of more or less Importance, but
it now has increased. and peculiar re-
sponsibilties resting upon it. Ours is a
people whose mainstay is agriculture,in
sense In which, perhaps. the same thing
cannot be said of any other nation on
The globe. 1t is no longer an open queS-
| Jiou whether, in turn, the mainStay of
| agriculture Is Stock Raising at least, II
is not settled afiil matiVelN, Ii is only a
matter of time until 1t shall be settled.
| The leadership in our animal industries
is essentially accorded to the breeder
! We stand at the head of producing
countries in the number of our cattle
| and the breeder has the responsibility of
Fastening the time when superiority III
quality shall be as pronounced as supe
| riority in numbers. Our dairy interests
are growing more rapidly than almost
any others but our people feel that they
are only standing at the gateway of an
| immense field OF success and proft-in
This is emphatically the land of swine
and portland it is the province of the
breeder to make that already excellent
| pork so fine that our foreign customers
Will be compelled To abandon all disease
SubterfugeS, and gladly admit 1t to their
markets. We are not producing suiii-
cient wool To clOthe ourselves, and we
| look to our breeders to see that our wool
shall one day become of such uniform
excellence that the wool grower, safe in
the merit of his product, may feel free
tn extend his business, and bid defiance
to the tariff antics of SchemiRg polltl-
clans.
These, and many other things which
the breeder has in hand, show that, IN
order to discharge his obligations to the
public, ahd succeed best Individually, he
must he man of parts. In all that
belongs to useful citizenship his make
up should be first-class. Let Us look for
awhile, at some of the salient points
which should belong to his equipment
for the work before him.
First of all, he must be an honest,
clean-handed man. The same thing can
of course be said of any one, but charac-
ter is in d marked degree essential To the
breeder of iine stock The position which
he holds as an eXperimenter in the value
of blood and family, the reliance which
in the nature of the Case must be placed
upon his word, aud the many tempta
ti0uS whicn ne has to deviate, vita ap-
parent profit, from the line of strict
prOOity, call fer honesty with an en-
phaSiS which cannot be mistaken. No
one cares to breed up his flock or herd
with animals for whose quality the
breeders word to some extent be the
guaranty, unless they know him to be
of unlmpeacnable veraclty. This is true
even in buying stock with which the
purchaser is more or less familiar; but
it is pre-eminently 50 in trying breed
Concerning Which but little is individu
ally known, aud for the merit of which
Q) the pedigree (Z) personal inspection,
and (3) the recommendation of tue sell
Ell are the only warrant. These three
Things co lstitute the guide hy which all
purchases of breeding stock must be
made. The buyer wants to know, of
course, exactly from what combination
Of blood the animal for which he is
dickering Is derived ;he wants to subject
it to the measure of his OWE eye and
OHO an IC HdhNo W hllO W
just what the seller has to say about it. !
Be the buyer ever 50 experienced in his |
business, and ever SO suspicious of hu-
man integrity, the word of the other
party To the trade must have some |
weight with him. But if he be Il be-
ginner, and honest himself, this last |
point Is everything to him. He feels |
that lie l., in measure, in the hands |
of the breeder, and must rely on his iD-
tegrity t0 insure him against m lklng a |
mistake. There is perhaps not Il breeder |
of prominence in tIfe country who does |
not, from time to time, have his honor
thus appealed to; and he is a rascal of
the verieSt type if he take an unfair ad-
vantage of the confidence repoSed in |
him. Many d farmer, hopefully deter
mining 10 Improve his stock, has invest
ed ii few hundreds in this way with men
who deceived him; and, finding his
money wasted, he has turned with dis
gust entirely away from the idea of
breeding up. believes the breeding buSi-
ness To be sham and frat ud, contin-
ueS to follow mis- old and Improbable
ways, prtjudiceS his personal friends
against Improvement. and in a general |
way places himself counter to his own
best interests and those of his neighbor-
hood. But he is an honest man, and the
responsibility of his false position lies
with the stUckman who !ouk his hard
earned money aS the price of good stock,
and for IL gave him trash. There is no
use Disgusting the fact that an OCCASION
al man who starts to improve his farm
stock fails, even where he seems to
manage lis business with care; but in
vestigdtiOn will show that no small per-.
OF these failures are due to i'm
position on the part of unprincipled
breeders. The charlatan who advocates
any breed of stock before the public, be
it ever SO well and favOrably known, is
a hindrance TO its intrOd action wherever
he is known. Every one can call to
mind, without difficulty, individuals,