Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-03-16
One Dollar Per Year.

raise stock for the general market TO a
realization of the fact thati it is 70 their
financial interest to purchase thorough
bred males, and TINS increase the de-
mand for the male increase of the herd.
1t is this education alone that WI
stimulate the purchase of fine stock for
breeding purposes, When the average
farmer learns this, he at once becomes
a purchaser and dissemination Of better
animals as the direct resutof that edu-
| cation. The breeder Of fine stock must
himself be an educator. He must
understand the merits and points of
excellence of the stock he breeds llo
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
monopoly of all the good qualities, but
the good qualities of one breed may
predominant largely over another in
one locality, or under certain condi-
tons, while 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 superlative merits that it can
crowd out and replace all others. There
fore it is not nee assary, nor is it an evil
dence of fairness, to endeavor to build
up the reputation or merits of one
breed by misrepresenting the merits of
others. If an owner of herd can not
sell his stock without attempting to
degrade and belittle the stock of an
other, he is not an honorable breeder
and it is tacit admission that he can't
sell his stock on its merits. Such
breeder should change his vocation, rs
his efforts to educate those who visit
his herd will be a failure, and all
breeds may suffer in the estimation of
the visitors
Where lands become more valuable,it
will necessitate the breeding of better
stock as the only means of securing adj
equate profits on the capital invested,
The increase of population will increase
the value Of lands, and this condition
will aid in the necessary education of
the farmer up to the conclusion that
only intensified farming, supplemented
with improved stock, will make the
farm pay its way and leave q profit to
its owner This condition, which must
result as of course, will increase the
necessity for the purchase of improved
!, stock by the general farmer, and the
more Thoroughly he is educated to the
necessity of using improved stock, the
more readily he will become a pur-
, chaser and Il practical advocate of the
) use of the improved breeds of true
stock. Therefore, it is the duty as
| well as the interest of the breeder to
; stimulate the desire to own and breed
better live stock. Hence the breeder
in a measure has to make his customers
by educating them up TO a point where
they will understand and appreciate
the differences between the thorough
5 bred and the scrub" and encouraging
; the taking of a good stock breeders
f paper, like the Breeders Gazette, as q
5 s'reat help in this direction. Don't
: think or feel that it is task to show
} your fine stock to your neighbors, or to
5 your visitors or friends, for in all this
2 you may be sowing bread on the waters
that will return at a future day TO
= change dollars for your improved stock.
S In short, to increase the demand for
1 improved stock, the breeder must
I breed the very best of the kind and be
= careful to sell none but good males to
r the general farmer, so that improve
e ment and satisfaction will certainly
+, and without fail follow the sale That
( kind of result will be powerful edu-
G Gator to the purchaser, and it may be
= to whole neighborhood The breeder
o himself must be Thoroughbred
c Thoroughbred must be written on all
4 his surroundings. He must be the
@ enemy Of all male scrubs" and not
u allow one to be on his farm. He must
d be thoroughbred in his dealings with
T. his neighbors and his customers to the
d extent Of not allowing an imperfect
v male to leave his herd or flock without
l. the defect being fully pointed out to
an uneducated purchaser He must be
# too much of thoroughbred to sell i'm
I perfect or indifferent males, even if he
: can get good profit thereon, and he
n must have the courage to use the knife
G as protector of the public and vim
n dictator Of the goad and thoroughbred
J. qualities of his own stock. Time will
~ vindicatc his honesty, and thrift re-
v ward him in the end.
o. am satisfied better day is coming
l. for the breeder of thoroughbred stock.
" The demand will increase as fast as the
:, public is educated up to the necessity
is Of breeding and raising better stock.
% The dark cloud of depression that has
a 50 long hung over the breeder of thor
l. oughbred cattle is about to be raised,
IF and expose to view again its silver
,e lining. "All things come to him who
is waits" is truth, as well as an old
, saying, and to the cattle breeder it
=, looks now as if the future is opening
II with promises of grand rewards to
s. those who have waited for that better
r. day. If the breeder is himself thor
r. oughbre his reward is sure to come
10 and is near at hands w. Click, in
le Kansas Farmer.
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