The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-27

brindle COW couldn't be recorded, SO
the bull McHenry bought couldn't be
recorded, and the only reason she pro-
duced a black polled bull Calf was from
the fact that she was mated to a record
ed Aberdeen Angus bull. Herein lies
the advantage of being recorded. The
recorded animal mated witha native
or scrub will nine times out of ten pro-
duce offsprings far better for the pur-
pose for which the recorded animal has
for generations, as shown by the
records been bred than is the native or
scrub parent. But the upbeliever says,
McHenry's cows We're all pure bred.
There can't be much in your argument
ii they can't withstand that small mix
ture of native blood. Aye, you have
a bushel of pure yellow dent seed corn
ready to plant. When your back is
turned mix into that bushel of seed a
handful of white sweet corn. How
many years before you can get rid OF
the sweet corn it you continue replant-
ing that seed. Say, you chap that don't
believe in pure bred stock, try the seed
corn problem.
To the man who has once used or
grown pure bred stock no argument
can convince him that it is not better
than common stock, so that in my
opinion the place of all places for pure
bred stock is in the hands of the man
who is today feeding the products OF
his farm to scrub stock. /.
Does it pay as an investment for the
average farmer? On the farm, as else
where, it is but short step from sue
cess to failure. A little gain on each
investment; a few cents made on each
days work, and we are soon successful,
well-to-do farmers. A few cents lost
each day will soon necessitate mort
gage on the farm and we are compelled
to each year use poorer tools and stock.
1t is not the farmer who works the
most hours that makes the most money
lit is the farmer who uses his brains,
reads and studies live agricultural
papers and the agricultural college
bulletins, so when he feeds his stock,
knows best what and how 10 feed, and
when he breeds an animal, does so with
definite object in view. No longer
Can the man who breeds for .sthe gen.
era. purpose Glass; succeed any more
than can the dairy man who follows in
the old rnt, but letting his cows roam
i'll the stalk field for a living. We
must breed and feed for an ideal ami
malone that is suitable to our sur
roundings and at the same time profit
able for our use.
1T breeding horses, study what the
market demands and when we learn.
then breed that class of horses and we
will be able to sell at profit. The
same with cattle and hogs. In order
to do SO we must use the purer bred
sires, at least, and no surer proof of it
can be so easily produced for this aud
fence thar to call your attention to the
hogs of Crawford county. Go any day
to the stockyards at your nearest rail-
road station and watch the hogs as they
are being delivered by the farmers
Notice how large per cent show good
breeding. Few if any razor backs.
And why is it? Easy enough to ans
wer. The farmers of Crawford county
have for Years been using pure bred
boars until today all the hogs i'll Craw-
ford county are practically pure bred.
But how about the horses, the caLtle,
the sheep and the chickens? A slran-
ger once said to me IL don't understand
why it is that you have SO many good
hogs here and SO many cheap, plug
horses and scalawag cattle" To me it
seems to be accounted for as fulfill
ment or o. q e. m s. llseslf lie
laws, say.yaI OF lie ll.test, .