Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

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whose taste leads strongly in that d.
lece'on. This position will as iny.ria-
Dly prove true as that a man can NOT
gam renown as an artist in the line Of
painting unless the talent be implanted
animals crops out in the child at an
early age, and is a tendency that can
not be mistaken at first manifestations.
ana is not by the individual in after
lie. 1t is. of course, a taste hat grows
ny cultivation, and becomes dwarfad
as any other faculty does, if nermitted
to lie dormant. Achild NAV he horn
an athlete, but if %apprenticed to a tail
~ VIII . quite sure to have an arrest
OF growth in the muscular system, and
IN TACT IN every part concerned in Civ
ny power and motion; while on the
other hand. due cultivate of the
ood'ly mheritances will add to the size
and capacity of the muscles, and all
other parts brought into action BY the
alhlete' as growth toward maturity ad-
Vances' The trotter is a trotter by in !
h%eritance, 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
cultivated upon the better sorts, of
yielding good fruits. Speak ever so
depreciatingly of the enthusiast, 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 sufficiently intense interest, he fails
to see what is legit;mately within his
range of vision. Like Milton, refer
ring to his W 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 house painter to ascend a
ladder for the purpose OF covering old
for the money he will get for going
| ONCl Y given SlllLCC, Will UthC JuSU DIS
much interest in breeding and feeding
a 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 we'll 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 a 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 ga MS double force when careful
study is pursued during the practice of
the art. Possibly a person contem-
plating the adoption of breeding a. a
business could in no other way so well
settle in his own mind the advisability
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 stcp, that he
may 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 g We personal at
tention to the more important details
rather than turn these over to a herds
man. The herdsman is nothing as a
herdsman if he be not deeply imbued
with Il fondness for live stock. With
the master making an investment mere
ly 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 i'm
proved breeds are, to a greater degree
than many are willing to acknowledge,
in a 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 lkings, 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
continue to depend upon, the same kind
of interest and enthusiasm in a 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 ts1thel
Improvement of the breeds must be
looked for through the efforts of men