The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-13
THE MORAL or IT.
Few Of the Causes Of tho Present DE.
preston In the stock Market.

y EeW Oh the S0uSGS Oh THO FfebeUt Dc
preston In the stock Market.
The sales Of dairy stock this spring,
especially among blooded cattle. have
struck the zero point, and have LEFT
abundance OF room for moralizing.
The divine William said ''sweet arr
the uses Of adversely" and breeders
now have an excellent opportunity te
collect all the saccharine matter the,
have an appetite for. There can be nc
substantial reason for the present de.
pressed state OF the market for dairy
animals, for prices OF cows were never
lower. nor the demand for dairy prod.
ucts never better. The incentive for
raising good dairy stock is just AZ
active and more promising for the
future than it ever was. New methods
OF raising and preserving the neces.
sary feed, aud new processes of manu-.
facture OF cheese and butter are rapidly
being perfected, and yet the prices for
the COWS. the machines for producing
tho raw material. are phenomenally low.
We must, therefore. look elsewhere
for the cause OF this depression. 1t If
not to be found lingering around that
will-o' -the-wisp called fashion. Let it be
remembered that the famous price.
paid a few years ago for individual.
animals were not the offerings OF those
men who make their living out Of the
products or the dairy. No man ever
could or would pay over 4 hundred
dollar, for i COW TO make cheese OF
butter with, even though he anticipated
the best Of calves as part Of his remu
neration, unless he attempted some.
thing Of a speculation in the breeding
line. 50 far as improving his herd
was concerned, high-priced pedigree
would not do it. That could not be nc
complished with such fictitious means
1t requires brains and hard work to Dc
this, aud money cuts but d small figure
IN the account. How many men have
spent fortunes in collecting the bes'
money could buy, when rating them b,
money standard, and yet they ut
tanned nothing in dairy qualities thai
had not been accomplished over anl
over again by mon Of brains and few
good scrubs to start with. The uses O
adversely are as sweet now as they
ever were, and the opportunity to prof'
by them were never better. To do this
however, there are a few conditions
precedent necessary. One is that the
man should be mentally equipped FOL
the business, and he should have {
purpose and end in view worthy o.
the undertaking. Under the presen,
conditions it is particularly foolish K
start in the work where your grand
fathers were compelled 10. that is, with
the plain, native stock of the country
Blooded cattle have their advantage.
in the working dairy over scrut
stock, just rs distinctly as the moving
machine has its advantages over til,
scythc Of your grandfather. The pow
ers of heredity in a given line are bull
upon correct principles, and have {
distinctive value in dollars and cent
for the plain, hard work OF the dairy
aud now is the time to take advantage
ol this act. not by simply buying pedi.
grees, but good animals with good ped
igrees. Remember there are scrubs
among the pedigreed stock, and plent.
OF them, and as those are animals tn,
breeder is most anxious to part with
you should use all your wit to circum
vent his purpose.
There has always been too mucl
family pride among breeders. and to-
little attention paid to the individual
merits OF the animals. While, Of course
there are certain merits belonging 4
families that pertain to their descend
ants. yet it must not be forgotten tina
they all really belong to one famil,
representing the breed, and II the his
tory OF the performance is fairly rep
resented in the ancestors, that 10 al
that can be reasonable asked, and
the form is correct the rest c:a +
safely left to the art OF handling, in O,
der to produce fine average of pei
Torrance. American Dairyman.