The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

know OF no greater benefit that can az
cruc to the farmers than to enable thrIN
to replace their "Scrub" stock with tee
improved kinds. 1t will enable Them
to largely increase their income with
out increasing their labor, expense or
care; and if human happiness is OF any
use to man, | do not know Of anything
in nature that will inspire more yVGH-
inc happiness in a man than tx vioy:
and admire his own herd of fine cattle,
horses, sheep or swine. While this Is
the acme of human happiness to
the successful breeder, it is no less !:
benUfactlOn worth very much 10 man
kind. How then shall the breeding Of
fine stock be made profitable To Ike
breeder and a market secured for his
surplus products? One important con-
sidcratiOn is to keep, breed and sell
only the best for breeding purposes
Make the stock it own stand ing auvcr-
tiscr of it's merits. Breed rs near per-
lection as possible, having an ideal to
which YOU will endeavOr to model the
produce Of the herd. In breeding cat
tie the Indifferent male will make u
money as if left entire, and may save
the reputation of the breeder. A poor
breeding animal leaving herd is Of nu
credit to it, and while it may leave il
few dollars in its place, it viii prevent
any more dollars going to that herd
from the neigh borhOod where it has
taken up its abode. This same policy
should apply to all kinds Of fine stock.
1t is not creditabie TO d breeder who
knows what a good type Of breed is t"
sell or impose one for breeding prll-
poses on q man who is not familiar
with the merits Of the breed, or who is
ignorant of the defects Of the animal
lie buys.
The day 70" the realization Of cX0rbi-
tant prices is past. Breeders must be
satisfied with fair profits, understanding
all the time that merit alone will b"in9
the most remuncrati tive prices. Breed
the best and show by comparison Wi;h
the ''scrub' and low grad" that }r"ii
lies in breeding good stock, amd tai.
will educate the masses OF people who
raise stock for the general market to a
realization of the fact that it is to their
finan cial interest to purchase thorough
bred males, and thus increase the de-
mand for the male increase of the herd.
1t is this education alone that will
stimulate the purchase Of fine stock for
breeding purposes. When the average
farmer learns this, he at once becomes
purchaser and dissemination of better
animals as the direct result of that edu-
cation. The breeder Of fine stock must
himself be an educator. He must
underStan the merits and points OF
excellence of the stock he breeds He
must be able to point them out and
compare them with the "scrub" and
convince his pupil that profit and merit
exist in a superlative degree in his fa-
vorite breed, keeping atall times within
the absolute lines OF truth.
All breeds in their proper places and
under certain conditions are valuable
and profitable. No one breed has n
monopoly of all the good qualities, but
the good qualities of one breed may
prcdominatc largely over another in
one locality, or under certain cOndi-
tiOnS, while Il change in locality or
conditions, will reverse those good
qualities. Hence there is plenty OF
room for all the Breeds and no one
breed can, under all conditions, contain
such superIative merits that it can
crowd out and replace all others. There
fore it is not nee 9ssary, nor is it an cvi
dence of fairness, to cndeavOr to buiIC