The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-12-12
VALUABLE LESSONS.
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admitted by all concerned that the
development of the live stock industry
of the country has been the deter
mining element, which has placed
them on permanent basis of pros
perity.
The horses of Belgium have come to
possess such qualities as power ma.
chimes that they are sought for draft
purposes by purchasers from near and
from far, and the prices paid are
such that no Highland County far
mer would fail to learn the object
lesson if ne could see as the writer has,
hundreds of Belgian geldings sold in a
single day at public auction, at least
one every minute, and none at price
less than $435 and scores much higher,
to 60 to Germany. Holland, England
and the north of France to be put in
harness for the purpose of transport
ing the heavy traffic. incident to the
business of those countries or to do
the work of the farms outside the
breeding districts
Suppose Highland County would
take sudden and concerted notion to
produce one hundred thousand such
horses in the next ten years and also
determine to have nothing but the
best cattle, sheep, road horses and
hogs possible.
The possibilities are so great that
the wonder is to me that we are not
precipitately scrambling in all direc-
tions to get foundation stock on which
to found business that will change a
mere living into prosperous pleasing
and gratifying avocation, that has
class, dignity, and emolument COM
mensurate with the ability and in
dustry each farmer must possess, now
adays to be only fair success in his
calling.
Down in Clay township there lives
friend of mine, very plain matter
Of fact man, who knows by experience
the practical truth of the great breed
ing principle, known the world over,
as Like Produce Like" that is, if one
breeds for certain quality one will
fail unless one uses as the foundation
the seed of that very quality which 1t
is desired to reproduce Under this
time honored principle it is useless to
temporize in the hope that nature
may play trick in the interest of the
temporizer, who may use foundations
of doubtful character, however prom
ising the individuality may happen to
be. For the trick can never be
turned and the ordinary life of man
will be we'll nigh spent before even
mediocre success can be attained with
common stock, no matter how good
they look or how hard he may try.
This friend of mine, small farmer
desired to produce speed in horses and
he went about it with Judgment and
economy, but saw to it that he had
the right kind of breeding stock. He !
INDUCED in no brilliant flashes of show |
or pretense, but went right on farm
ing and breeding the right kind and
educating the colts right on the farm;
consistently sticking to the purpose
laid out for himself without fear,
favor or deviation. 1t has been only a
few years, but George Evans has sold
colt after colt of his own breeding, at
prices ranging from one thousand to
three thous md five hundred dollars
and all the time he has had besides
the money compensation the con.
Of doing something worth
while.
Institutions such as "The Union
Stock Yards Co., 1.-THE Kansas City
Live Stock Show Co., "The State of
Ohio, as well as most other states,
and thousands of smaller divisions of ,
our great country, not to speak of the
United States government itself, have
spent in the aggregate, million upon !
million of dollars In an effort to teach ,
the great lesson herein set forth and
yet there are those who say it is the
rich mans game; astounding to con-
template!
The peasants of Belgium and France
are not the rich men of those coun-
tries. The cattlemen of Scotland are
tenant farmers and the shepherds of
England are the descendants of
typical serving class of the north
hills. Yet they have so improved the
respective excellences Of their chosen
breeds that they are now command
ing the clamorous coin of the rich
from all the world.
If any argument we're necessary to
prove that agriculture without live
stock will fail in the long run, it
would only be necessary to investi-
gate the high priced land areas of
Illinois where the rotation in the
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