Milford chronicle., 1892-05-13
FARM NOTES.
Breeding Animals.

they must be fe9lsteIeU ih '"0
record established for that breed
The Secretary of the Treasury Is
given the authority to make suoh
regulations for carrying out TINS
section Of the law as may be required
for its strict enforcement.
IN evident purpose Of Congress
a providing that animals imported
for breeding purposes shall be pure
bred. of a recognized breed, and duly
recorded was to stop the importa'
ton Of the thousands Of animals o.
tbe very commonest class from Mex
leo and Canada which were brought
into the United States ostensibly for
breeding purposes, but really to
compete with the stock raised py
our own farmers. 1t is not less evl-
dent that Congress also intended to
lessen. if not entirely prevent, the
imu5rtation of mongrel and cross
SOD anfnsls from Europe by spec9@
liators who would sell them here for
birb prices as purss6sted a2hNFls.
Tbere is not a particle of doubt thar
registers we're established in Europe
mainly to make the animals regis
tered therein eligible to the Amer
ran market. It is also certain that
animals without pedigree and OF no
special value for breeding purposes
have been registered on payment oi
the required fee, and have then been
.s6t upon the American market as
pure-bred stock, and as such have
been sold for several. times their
actual worth.
While it is fact that our breeders
have failed to avail themselves as
thev should of the many varieties Of
good breeding stock to be obtained
in this country at reasonable price
and. instead of improving our owl
stock by selection and care, have
introduced foreign breeds Of doubt
full utility and of great cost, it is Nc
more than proper that pure-breC
stock which our farmers desire t.
import and use for improving theIl
animals should be allowed to CONF
in tree of duty. At the same time
the speculator should be discouraged
as much as.--assible from bringing
Inferior animals, incapaoie-,o y ~
proving our home stock, and prof
table only to the person who imports
them and sells them under misrep
reservations as to their breeding.
The breeders of the country hav
felt. therefore, that the law SHOULD
be strictly enforced, and that n
animals should be admitted duty
free unless they we're strictly pure
bred. To accomplish this, however
there must be some definition as t
what should costitute a pure-bre
animal The mere fact of registr
is not sufficient, because there ar
registers for crossbred animals ant
others to which entrance may b
gained on payment of a sufielen
fee without regard to blood.
The first regulations of the Treai
ury Department made under thi
law admitted all recorded animals
But it soon became apparent tha
under such regulations animals whic
were not Of pure blood were comm
in without payment of duty, and til
Department ofAgriculture was aske
TO make recommendations as to wins
records should be recognized,
The question was found to be vel
complicated and one which it wa
difficult to adjust upon any gener
principle which would apply to a
breeds alike, and do justice to OF
importers. Some registers we
clearly beyond recognition becau'
nnritv of blood was not made
qualification for record. Some reg
tiers OF breeds, which our people al
very anxious to import, were co
Quoted in such way as to reco
not only pure-bred animals b
others without pedigree. 9th
registers admitted in addition
pure-bred animals the crosspred d
scendants of two distinct breed
and while both sire and dam mig
be pure bred produce could only
considered as crossbred. In both
these cases it would be necessary
make a discrimination between a
mails recorded in the same regist'
What regulations should be ado
ted, then, to make the common a
cross-bred stock pay duty and
admit without unnecessary requi
ments the strictly purebred amin
imported in good faith to imprc
our breeds2 It is apparent &
there must be some discreminat
between the registers; that tn
which make no pretensions to
necessary of pure blood as requi
ment for registry cannot be recog
zed under the law as it now stan
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