The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-19
COMPILING J
BREEDERS
DIRECTORY
New Agricultural Department
Begins Active Operations.
PURE BRED LIVE STOCK
viii be Encouraged as One of
First Objects.

Guthrie. O. r. April fS-Amoug TIA
several lines OF work mapped out IN the
newly opened once Of the territorial
board OF agriculture Is one OF compiling
a directory OF breeders o. pure bred
livestock in Oklahoma. Regarding tho
| necessity and importance OF this work,
Secretary Thoburn said today
Already requests for information
have begun 20 come in from breeders
who desire to learn II there are others IN
Oklahoma who make a speciality sf
Bleeding the same class OF stock that
they do. The fact is. there are a great
many more breeders Of pure bred stock
In Oklahoma than enc who has not taken
the pains TO investigate. would think.
Registered Percheron and Clydesda'e
stations. some OF them imported may
be found In many places in the older SET
lied parts Of the territory. a. also siand-
ard bred trotteFs and saddle animals
and the result is already noticeable in tia
Improvement OF the average type IN all
classes OF horses.
while the interest In the breeding bet
ter horses is growing II does not nearly
equal that which Is evinced tn the pas
Thoburn. Good foundation herds Il
Herefords and Shorthorns may be found
in many IL not in most OF the counties in
Oklahoma today while several az mo
yelled breeds are wei represented
Breeds Of cattle of the dairy type have
not received the attentlon that they le-
serve. in fact. the dairy industry has
been neglected In oklahoma for somc uR-
explained reason.
The swine breeding field In this terri
tory has been largely mouopollzed by
the Poland China hitherto but the Befk-
shire and the Tamworth each has -
champions now and doubtlssS they viii
increase in number. The swine breeders
of oklahoma have maintained an oreau-
ization for nearly ten wears and this fam
iy became the nucleus OF the Oklahoma
Improved Stock Breeder nssociag o.
which was organized several years arp
The sheep industry. like that OF the dairy.
has received but scant attention from
the farmers and breeders OF oklahoma. r
IL Oklahsma people consumed mutton IN
the same proportion that the r, sidsnis
OF some OF the eastern states d. all the
sheep in the territory today would not
furnish a normal supply OF mutton for
period OF three months This condition Is
probably due 10 The expense of pgoerT
fencing and 20 the existence. ~ close
poximity Of too many dogs and coyotes.
4 defamation OF Oklahoma Carinrs hoth
domesticated and sborieinni would M
,ioubtcdly give substantial encourage
ment 20 the farmer who desires % raIss
sheep. As IL II now. nearly all the mat
ton consumed ia oklahoma r. shl2oef
IN. dressed from the packing cenlers.
The Angoria goat is not unknown n
Oklahoma indeed. Il IL quite IN ell
dence" in timbcred sections ~ the sarfern
counties. where II T. FIRST established
reputation for the economic aud enectivs
determination 81 scrub oak fhIcEtis.
blackjack sprouts ard other brush
this work IL fairly outclasoes she "Frfla-
bin hoe 81 blessed but baet-aehlag
memory. The Ansora goat has coue
20 stay IN Oklahoma. az least a. long -
there f. any bfurh 20 be- cleaned NJ
THE pure bred livestock business f.
only In 81 lncipiency IA oklahoma. con-,
tinued tho secretary OF the szriegiturai
board 1T Is capatie % indehniis es-
pansien and AVERAGE values viii incrssse
49, breeders gro~ ~ number ara arfftri-
alton OF their business After tho hrst
outlay for foundation stock x does ni'
cost any more O. raiss pur" bred animals
than II docs 90 produce scrubs aad tha
return Is much greater. both ia material
results and satisfaction.
The Improved Live stock BreedeFf
association - an organization that -
serves 70 be encouraged and every rs'
putsbls and progressive breeder in Ia
territory ho,sif b. actively Eenfiaed Uah
H. with the prorer efforts on the paT;
u such an agency che iive stock iafef-
Try Of Oklahoma. already 3 moaf 3-7-
yortant factor ia the growth arr desei~
,prrent Of the terriiorl. would attain -
!, degree x magnitude AID value RI esu-
parton with which The present is hut
mere promise"