Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-27
TIE MAGIC WORD IMpoRrEp.

FROM Inc Farmer and Breeder.
While everyone is wen aware that
the major portion OF our improved stock
is OF European origin or development it
is nevertheless true that most people
give much too great Importance 10 the
tact that the particular animal in cues
ton was bred ''the other side of the
Atlantic ocean, Some authorities
claim that climatic conditions require
that we so 10 the warmer, more moist
countries TO obtain animals to stand at
the top of the classes i'm our great
shows. If this is true perhaps stand
ards of judgment might be we'll
changed. The foods OF the old country
can be used to fit animals for show
purposes with less danger of injury TO
the animals future usefulness. But
America san grow roots and her herds
men a avoid corn If they really desire
TO do so and are willing to make suf-
ficient efforts i'm that direction. No
doubt the climate of Great Britain will
grow a heavier coat ON cattle thar is
natural to this country. And We all
like a heavy, messy coat of hair.
But many of the imported animals Of
all breeds of boil cattle and horses are
far from being worthy animals of
known desirable ancestry. This was
a few years ago especially true of the
French horses. Bred under govern
ment supervision for many years and
kept strictly within their breed there
was Notwithstanding little reliability to
be placed in their definite p~edigrees.
The Frenchman cared little for pedi-
gree except as il sold the colt to the
Yankee. These things have improved in
recent years, but We fear yet lack the
trueness TO detail demand in America.
If we nave for the past score of ears
imported most of the top stations of
France and many gooo mares, along
with a large number of fat Gull stations
why should not American breeders be
able to produce a colt equal to or bet
ter than very many of the imported
ones? The American breeder OF pure
bred horses has not used the Gull stall
lions; he has had the best his judgment
could select. The poor ones were sold
to so into sections where fat covered
their multitude or defects. While we
do not decry the good imported animal
we do place the good home-bred one
ahead OF the poor imported one. A
home grown stallion will likely prove a
much more certain breeder than the inn
ported one, at least for the first W
years. We would like to see the heavy
stations OF all breeds needed in this
country raised by American breeders,
with the. possible exception of an oc-
casional great n which might
strengthen the breed in this country.
The American breeder has bred the
trotting horse that surpasses all the
rest OF the world and the-same energy
rightly applied will leave no room for
importing ordinary or common draft or
carriage stations.
The American Shorthorn association
recognized this fact of importing or
binary animals when they became pro-
tectiouists and required a 500 recording
fee on imported Shorthorns. Yet no
breed has received the good from recent
importations hat came to the Short
horns through the labors and skill of
Amos Cruickshank. Among breeders of
Shorthorns the word imported has as
great an influence as among draught
horsemen. yet many of the imported
animals of the past decade have been
of only ordinary individual quality.
We need as breeders n farmers to
strengthen our judgment and depend
more fully upon it. Let the fact of an
animal being American bred be rather
in it's favor than otherwise. The Amer
lean people will not put themselves be
hind any nation on earth and why
should not their products be as good as
those of any other people. Dependence
on the fact that the animal was inn
ported will be a poor reason to put him
at the head of your herd. The magic
word imported should lose and we be-
lieve is losing its undue influence.