The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Farmers as Buyers q Dairy stock.

There is a class of breeders that seems
20 utterly ignore the common farmer as
> purchaser of stock. They do not
seem to desire his patronage. As re-
suit at our stock sales the buyers are
mostly what we call professional breed
srs. The rule has been tina. the money
which has been exchanged for pure
bred stock has gone round in little
circle, and breeders and importers have
been. living of themselves. 1t would
seem as if that sort of diet would get
very monotonous after awhile. In fact
| it has come to be monOtOnous to many
breeders and they are cultivating the
patronage of the common farmer. The
farmer is the principal breeder of this
country. He is called q farmer and not
breeder. but if he should stop breed
ing. there would be very little left OF
the live stock business as an extensive
industry. 1t has been of late years, and
is now the custom to speak of creamer-
les as representing the entire dairy in
terest The farmer is pretty nearly lost
sight of. But it is the farmer who is
the basis of the creamery. and 1t is the
farmer who makes most of the butter.
We are ALWAYS talking of improving the
dairy products, but we shall never have
universally good dairy products until
the farmer everywhere is interested in
the reform. We need to induce him to
get better cows and adopt better meth
DDS; and every time we get an inferior
private dairy to be superior in charac-
ter, VIC have extended the demand for
our dairy stock, for every new importa-
ton of good dairy stock into commu-
nifty advertises it and excites an inter-
est in it.
In some respects, as it seems to rs,
breeders have conducted their business
very injudiciouslv. It is well known
that farmer who has no experience
wah pure-bred cattle, thinks, or may
think. that the high prices which they
frequently bring, is eytortion and must
prove ruinous to the buyer. That is a
natural feeling. Large OUTLAWS for what
we do not fully understand, appears
like taking leap into the dark. But
the breeders and tho. press to large
extent have seemingly made studied
effort to keep this class of men in igno-
rance of the fact that cattle can be
| bought ut low prices as well as high.
The low priced cattle usually are not
as good as the high priced. but they
are very much better than none, as we
have frequently said; and the Rnral
| and Stockman has tried to encourage
the common farmer to attend the pub
lie sales by assuring him that at nearly
all of them cattle are sold for less than
a hundred dollars head. Except in
the Rural and StockDaan, however. no
mention is ever made of such sales.
But we will guarantee that the time
will come when both breeder and farm
er will thank us for this course. Our
purpose is to get farmers interested in
pure bred stock We know that it is
to their interest to breed up--that il
will be money in their pockets. We
would like to see our farms rid of I'M
profitable cows. and it is going to be
no fault of ours if they are not. We do
not expect to induce many who have
never given attention to the subject oil
pure-bred stock, to invest hundreds OF
dollars in a COW or bull. But we dc
expect to start good many toward
fortune by inducing them to begin with
q little low priced stock.-Hestern
Rural.