Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-09-19
CATTLE BREEDING REDUCED
TO SIMPLE PRINCIPLES.

1t is said Of some men that the range
of their talents is so wide that they are
sure Of success, no matter what business
or profession they adopt. While this,
with certain important qualifications, is
true, yet it does not require that man,
in order to have high order of success
follow his movements in cattle breeding,
be possessed of versatile, brilliant, or,
in any sense, great talents. 1t is not
required of the breeder in our day that
he be an originator. In BAKEwELL's,
and even in BATES time, things were
sin the rough" and it required not a
little close study and investigation to
enable those men to aiseovey where they
were to look for good, and from what
sources to expect evil. Considering the
radical changes required to be made in
the forms Of the cattle stock OF the
times, when their efforts were operative,
it was really important that they be
thorough Psychologists, and understand
something of the anatomy of grazing
| beasts. They were neither of these,
yet they were men whose intellects took
a wide range, and with this aid, sus-
tanned by an answering devotion to
their calling, and firmness in pursuing
the best lights at their command they
built up, under great disadvanta ges,
foundation for those coming after to rest
upon.
A man may, through the process Of
migrating upon tree, in itself some
what scraggy, from another, attractive
on account of its great symmetry, es.
tablish description OF tree that will
quite uniformly grow in form after the
model it first starts out upon. All trees
of that particular migrating will not be
exact Implications Of the parent tree in
| form, yet the resemblance will be rea-
sonably close; and tree growers for all
time, if health in the stocks be main.
tanned, and they are planted in good
soil. can rely upon quite true dnplica-
ton of the original parent sort. This
| is fair illustration Of what we are to
this day reaping from the efforts of the
early breeders, and it affords the added
illustration, predicated upon the idea
that the improved form of the tree,
through migrating, is fair illustration
of the improved form Of the cattle beast,
through the ingraftment Of wisely.
selected specimens, having such form as
it is desired to perpetuate, and there
from build up breed having the i'm.
portant merit of uniformity.
So, rightly viewed, the breeding and
maintaining OF either Of the breeds Of
cattle were pretty well fixed in form and
characteristics early in the present cen.
fury, and has not SO much required
! high order Of talent as the quiet adop
ton OF a suitable style and contour,
and perlinaciously following that con.
tour up. There has not, during the
lifetime of any breeder now living,
been more than a moderate talent ex.
erted in breeding, excepting in rare in
stances; and il has not been the most
brilliant men who have achieved the
greatest successes, but rather, those
who became enthusiastic admirers OF
the breed Of their adoption, and faith
fully adhered TO a we'll chosen model to
breed from, carefully adhering to the
proposition that no profitable growth
can come to farm beast without liber-
al nourishment being given. 1t is the
peculiarly Of some men to assume a
knowing look in the presence of the
novice, and by word and act make it
g., appear that there is a great deal Of
mystery necessarily surrounding the
movements OF the breeder Of the higher
classes of cattle; whereas, after a man
has adopted a type according to his
views, and supplied himself with mate
rial to correspond, there is no more
mystery or any higher degree Of intrica-
cy involved in breeding high-class cat
tie than belongs in an equal degree to
the breeding of the dairy cow.-Na-
HoHdI Live. Stock journal.