New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25

OF walking in the beaten paths Of their
fathers, Of men who believe that the
world moves, that new possibilities are
continually being brought to light, and
that to succeed in this day and age one
must keep in the front rank of pro-
gress. Slip-shod cultivation and pro-
miscuous breeding to-day means loss
and poverty. An agricultural society
should be. and is when intelligently
conducted, a great educator in intro.
ducing the farmers of its section to the
best methods of cultivation, to the
merits of lobor-saving machinery, to
the different breeds of stock, and in nu-
merous other directions. The officers
and members themselves. by their con-
nection with the practical workings of
the society, and by being brought into
contact with the exhib should be well
calculated to form correct judgments
as to the merits and dement's of the
various exhibits, and particularly as to
those best adapted to their respective
localities. Therefore selections of stock
made as is proposed by the Brown
County Society, would naturally have
the effect of creating greater confidence
in them among the people at large
than would an individual selection, and
this increased confidence would as nat
urally lead to their more general en-
ployment, and a consequent greater
good would be the result. There is,
too, another merit to such Society ac-
ton, in that it void be the means of
placing within the reach of many not a.
BILE individually to afford the outlay good
stock by which to build up and improve
their herds. We therefore trust that
the Brown County Agricultural Socie-
ty will not rest easy with merely con.
sidering the proposed new departure,
but will carry it into early execution.
Now as to the queries propounded by
Mr.. Heideman. They cover too wide
field of facts and statistics to be gone
into infinitely in one article. or with the
data before as. But in general way
we will say that the advantage pos
sessed by the thoroughbred, or blooded
animal over common stock, comes from
the fact that the former through long
series of years has been bred for par
ticular purpose-for the taking on OF
fat, increasing the yield of milk and its
capabilty of being transferred into but
ter and cheese in greater proportion, in
securing greater speed, strength, etc.
For perpetuating the particular quail
ties desired the fittest of the respective
families have oeen preserved for repro.
ducing themselves through all these
years, until we have to-day distinctive
breeds of cattle noted for their beef
producing qualities, others for their
milk, butter and cheese production;
horses distinctively bred for size and
strength, or their speed at the run or
trot; sheep for mutton or wool, and so
on through all the domestic animal
creation. By being thus bred for a
distinctive purpose the animals have by
the passage of time become particular
ly strong in their provocative powers in
the direction desired, and whenever
coupled with an inferior animal, or one
not distinctively bred, the stronger and
more prepotcnt powers predominant
over the weaker to the betterment of
the offspring. Perhaps the following
table showing the ratio of Improvement
from such coupling. will best illustrate
this point.
Per cent. pure blood.