The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-09-28
but they are less appreciative and nev.
er respond to good treatment like well
bred animals.

out they are less appreciative and nev-
er respond to good treatment like we'll
bred animals.
Therefore the ften remark "I never
get paid for the care OF my stock
the trouble is they never had breed
that could appreciate good treatment.
Any man that has visited the stock
yards of Chicago cannot fail to see the
difference in the stock brought from
those locations where they have paid
attention to these rules.
10 into SWifCs wholesale butcher
establishment and see the difference
and quality of the butchered animals.
Instructive qualities generally pre-
dominate in the female, and reason
and instinct being so nearly allied the
female more generally determines
these qualities in the offspring. Quail
ty or physical proportions and powers
are more apt to follow the sire, while
mind IN the human race or instinct
which is the most similar to mind in
dumb brutes, follow the mother. Spir-
it is also mostly derived from the
mother, consequently we see in animal
husbandry that the nice spirited colts
come from spirited mares.
ANY animal should have a good
head to be OF much use, intelligence OF
brain being the directing power to the
whole organism. When you have a
good head you have half the good
qualities of the whole animal as when
you see good head you generally SEQ
an animal with correspondingly good
body.
Education, in other words, (keep and
handling) is thought by some sufficient
guarantee of quality, but all men of
experience in handling we'll bred stock
know that no manner of handling can
compensate for lack of quality in
blood. The best of blood may howey-
er, prove of little value for procreation
if the keep and handling is such as to
injure vitality. for wherever this is lost
or injured in the parent it must show
in the offspring. This we see eXem-
plified in the listless. puny. worthless
offspring of the ill-kept, the oyerworlS-
ed or the overfed. Thus we see that
good points can be bred in and then
only maintained by good handling and
keep. Ii the farmer is too shiftless i'm
mind and habit to keep and handle
well, there is but little use for him to
pay much attention to breed.
Crossing of full bloods of different
breeds has not generally been as pro-
ductive of good results as the crossing
of full blood on natives or those OF
mixed ancestry,
With the fun bloods. the notencv of
each breed is STRUGGLING for the mas
terry, while with the fuli blood on the
one side and the defective breeding on
the other, the defective or mixed
race Yields to the stronger blood and
the offspring takes the desirable ouall-
tY of the full blood, With tull bloods
on both sides the characteristics of tile
offspring will determine which parent
has the strongest or Oldest breeding.
| consider, however. that in breed
ing hogs a square cross between Berk-
shire and Poland China. or Berkshire
and Chester White q great improve
ment in the proganyfor fattening pylr-
poses over either breed.
The Berkshire is stronger and old
er breed with stronger instincts, there
fore has greater potency. The desir-
able quality in this breed is. hardihood.
muscularity, and activity.
This should Elm the mother, and thus
makes her the better adapted to moth
erhood. The Poland China or Chester
White with their larger frames and
more sluggish dispositions and habits
will give the young pigs qualities for
growth and fattening not possessed
by the pure blood Berkshire dam, will
render them better feeders with more
lean than the Polands or Chesters, will
fatten faster and stand on their feet
well on the rounding up as perfectly
natural porkers.
Climatic influence and local sur
roundings in a great measure affect
quality, therefore the Importance of
atfording as near as practical the same
facilities as the besttyp are produced.
The quality of the food determines
personal qualities of the animal to a
great extent; for the animal cannot
generate any quality not possessed by
the food itself. How to raise a young
animal. How to fatten an animal.
Vitality is the prime eSsentialin any
animal, for herein lies the power to eX-
lst at all. Good vitality is especially
indicated by we'll developed nostrils;
we'll rounded form with short head
and deep jaws. Food and air are the
two fountains from which life is main
tanned, and the animal that lacks
power to assimilate and appropriate
both OF these is of but little value for
any purpose.
Well arched ribs leave ample room
for the action of heart and lungs, and
Indicate healthy and roomy stom-
ach. :.
Breeding from immature animals is
one OF the most prolific causes OF deter
donation in size and quality and should
never be allowed. Immature animals
have not the proper vitality to produce