The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-03-08
LIVE
STOCK.
ci,oosino a Breed.

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An erroneous idea seems TO be com
mon TO the effect that q beginner in a
given farming district should choose
breed different from that handled by
his immediate neighhor IL he is to
expect profit from the live stock breed
ing business. There is no more Sc
rious error than this. Success comes
from unity and combination or CO.
operation in business. Selfish rivalry
and unfair competition hurt both
parties involved. II is therefore best
for young man to commence with
that breed of cattle, horses, sheep or
swine which has by some one else
been made a success of in the district.
II, for instance, several breeders have
long handled Shorthorn cattle to good
advantage In a community. 1t would be
unwise for a beginner to start out
with Herefords or Aberdeen-Angus
cattle. There is nothing the matter
with either of the lastnamed breeds
Either one of them may be handled to
advantage and at profit, but where
another breed has become popular IL
would seem wise to stick to that breed
rather than Introduce a different one
as a rival.
1t may be taken for granted that
where any particular breed of live
stock has long been bred to good ad-
vantage the environment suits that
breed and may not so well suit an.
other. AT the same time il is certain
that friends of the established breed
are everywhere in that district and
that the name and fame of the district
as the breeding center of a particular
/ type and breed of animals has become
widespread, so that buyers go there to
/ purchase animals annually at an ap-
/ preciatiye price. Were a beginner to
start out with an alien breed in such
district he would have to build up a
name for it and so in time command
the patronage of the buyer. This
would take much time and money TO
achieve, and meanwhile trsae would
have come in had the beginner gone
into the same business as his neigh.
bors. 1t is well when a district is
thus engaged in the production of one
or more good products or specialties
but it must be confessed that very
many instances might be cited where
instead of harmony existing, breeders
are opposed to one another and each
engaged in different breeding efforts
and endeayoring to belittle and hinder
the efforts of the other.
In some small counties II is possible
to find almost all of the breeds of cat
/ nf hr har ds
are of first-class quality and breeding
II would be better for all concerned
had each of these districts or counties
decided upon single breed of beei
cattle and a single breed of dairy
cattle, and its breeders then com
bined into a county association for the
! purpose of furthering by every legiti
mate means the interest of the parti
cular breed handled. Buyers would
become plentiful in such a center ant
quality would decide the values o.
each mans animals and the amount
of profit he would make annually a.
compared with that of his neighbol
engaged in the same business It II
a difficult matter for single breeder
to make a success of his animals il
given district. and success only
Genes after many years OF patient
effort, wide advertising and consider
able expense.
/ In choosing breed we would, there
fore advise the beginner to select one
that is. known to be suitable for the
district in which the stud, herd. OF
flock is to be established-one that
has been proved suitable by long ex
perience of neighbors who are engaged
in that production. If there is no sucl
breed in the district or IL there is :
great diversity of opinion and practice
in the breeding of animals, the begin
ner will then have to study Tor him
self, but will do best to get his neigh
bors together and have them form ar
association and take up the breeding
of one class of animals as a specially
AS has often been mentioned here
there is special need of uniformity il
district horse breeding. In too man,
districts there is no concerted actor
for the rational improvement of hors,
stock Mongrels and misfits are still
being bred, whereas one or two specia
types might easily be raised and SOLD
annually at a profit, were breeders ts
combine for such work.-A. S. Alexan
der in Farmers Review.