Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
DOMESTIC ANIMAL S.
The Breeder of Them Must Have Nat
ural Liking For Them TO Insur~ Sue
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| S@A AiAaHk OF Anem TO InsuIH >
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Those only should enter upon !. n
business of breeding farm animal
whose taste leads strongly in that d.
rection. This position will as invaria-
bly, prove true as that a man can not
gain renown as an artist in the line of
painting unless the talent be implanted
within him. This leaning toward live
animals crops out in the child at an
early age, and is a tendency that can
not be mistaken at first manifestations,
and is not by the individual in after
life. 1t is. of course. a taste that grows
by cultivation, and becomes dwarfed,
as any other faculty does, if permitted
to Ne dormant A child may be born
an athlete, but if apprenticed to tail
or viii be quite sure to have an arrest
of growth in the muscular system, and
| in fact in every part concerned in Civ
| ing power and motion; while on the
other hand. due cultivation of the
| bodily inheritances will add to the size
| and capasity of the muscles, and all
other parts brought into action by the
| athlete, as growth toward maturity adj
! vances. The trotter is a troster by IN
| heritance, but the outcome of the
| tendency to trot depends upon the sort
| of hands he falls into, as the outcome
| of the talent for painting depends upon
the extent to which it is cultivated.
Hence, on the farm there is no occa-
| sion for making any mistake or as to
whether or not any of the growing sons
| have such natural leaning toward do
nestle animals, as to give promise, if
| cult waited upon the better sorts, of
yielding good fruits. Speak ever so
| depreciatin civ of the enthusiast, a liberal
| measure of this comes in as an import
| ant factor in success. A breeder with
out enthusiasm has many avenues
closed to him, because, through want
of suffic emily intense interest, he fails
to see what is legitimately within his
range of vision. Like Milton, refer
ring to his own blindness.
| And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out,
the enthusiast is on the look out His
| deeper than ordinary interest brings
| forward a DIES re to excel. while the
breeder who follows the business with
no other incentive than that which
leads the housed painter&o ascend
ladder for the purpose of covering old
| siding W tn new coat of paint, VIZ:
for the money he will get for going
over given surface, will take just as
much interest in breeding and feeding
plain animal that has descended
from stock which has cost him but lit
tie. as from cultivating the best, pro-
vided the plain sort, in, the
ratio of the amount of money
invested. pays as well on the,
investment as the other. The highest
attainments, and ultimately the most
browning successes in every way, have
not usually come to those whose efforts.
| have been based almost entirely upon
| the sordid branch of enterprise in
| breeding. The admirer of the in
dividual animals, no matter what the
breed adopted, this admiration being
backed by intelligence and Judgment,
will give dergee of promise that can
not come of sordid influences alone.
All things being equal, the young
| man, or, as to the matter of age, we
need draw no line, who first gets his
interest awakened through reading
| up current stock literature will be more
| likely to make an intelligent beginning
than he who does not read at all. This
rule ca rs double force when careful
study is pursued during the practice of
| the art. Possibly a person contem-
| plating the adoption of breeding as a
| business could in no other way so well
| settle in his own mind the advisabifity
| of the step, as indicated by his liking
for the property to be handled. and
| his industry in following up
all the requirements, as by care
fully digesting literature ON breed
| ing as a preliminary step, that he
| NAV the better see something of the
| complexities that are all the time aris-
| ing. and likely to test the depth and
| breadth of his enthusiasm. Going into
| the business because he likes it, pre-
supposes that he will gve personal at
| tent:on to the more important details
rather than turn these over to herds
| man. The herdsman is nothing as
herdsman if he be not deeply imbued
with fondness for live stock. With
| the master making an investment mere
| " to be in the fashion, or entirely gov
| cred by the money-making feature of
the business, and the herdsman follow
ing his calling mechanically, as it were,
solely for the monthly pay it brings,
| falls greatly short of being up to the
highest standard by which naturally a
! herdsman is judged. No matter how
generally the contrary opinion pre-
walls, facts regarding improvements in
uniformity of duplication among inn
proved breeds are. to a greater degree
| than many are willing to acknowledge,
| in primary state. 1t is at least so with
| the average breeder. Who is likely to
make the most rapid progress in this
direction? Undeniably the man who,
| from personal likings. takes the deep
est interest in the stock he handles.
| even though he be an enthusiast. Inn
| provements in the direction referred to
| have heretofore come from, and must
| cont nue. to depend upon, the same kind
! of interest and enthusiasm In gwen
undertaking that brought out and de-
veloped navigation upon water by
steam; upon the iron rail by the same
| agency: our instantaneous mode of
writing over an almost limitless stretch
of wire through the use of the electric
| current; and of wiring the voice through
space with like rapidity. Individual
effort gives us these results, and further
| improvement of the breeds must be
| looked for through the efforts of men
| possessed of judgment. yet welded to
an idea and enthusiastic. yet this en-
| thusiasm may have the force of a. deep,
rapid current without the surface de-
| monstrat:oni that attends a shallow
| stream. Lire Stock Journal.
The most absent-minded man in
| Scranton is the one who carried has
| dinner to, work one day last week,
worked all day. and when he came to
| p.oE nm b;s d;nnar-nail To carry il home