Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-02-05

| With the interest taken in all
farm operations today by CONNER
cial and business enterprises by the
| u S. Department of Agriculture,
State Agricultural Colleges, County
| Agricultural Schools and County Ag-
ricultural Experts, etc, if the far
mer does not succeed, it is not be-
cause of lack of interest in his
welfare.
Everyone realizes that agriculture
| is the backbone of the country Ev-
cry agricultural town is dependent
in large measure on the prosper
| ity Of the country surrounding it,
and behind all agricultural pursuits
is the Live Stock Industry, without
which the soil cannot be kept to
it's greatest producing capacity, no
matter how good the soil may be,
ried on
For the purpose of encouraging
the raising of live stock, and to
bring the business to higher level,
is the work Of community breeding
associations, of which there are
several ways of operation.
| The farmer used to think if he
could raise something a little differ
ent from what everyone else raised,
he would find a better market and
| If he could raise a little different
kind of stock from what everyone
else raised, it would be to his ad-
| vantage. Not so today The spirit
Of cooperation has taken hold of the
people and we find localities special
izing in fruit-raising, potato-growing,
etc, and now, organized effort is
being made to create breeding cen
| ters for live stock, and especially
dairy cattle, in which a whole COM
munity, as far as possible, will cen
ter on one particular breed of cattle.
The prime factor in such co-opera-
ton is to establish on every farm,
COWS of better breeding, and of
greater producing capacity, the fact
that many animals of the same
breeding, brought into closer COM
petition with each other, and easier
comparison, puts a little personal
pride into a fellow, which encour-
ages him to look we'll after the
things which tend to the better de-
velopment and growth of his stock
A secondary consideration in COM
munity breeding, and one which may
we'll be emphasized, is later on,
when a surplus of stock is had,
helps to create a better market, as
| buyers looking for carload lots are
willing and can afford to pay higher
prices for the easy assembling of
cattle in quantity.
That there is a great educational
feature in the Breeding Association
Movement, goes without saying. 1t
brings men to face with the PROPOSE
| ton and shows him the type of the
old scrub bull together with the type
of COW he produced, and their rec
0rds Of performance if any, or the
returns his herd brought in from
the factory; and then take a bull
Of the breeding represented in the
| Association, of good dairy conforma-
ton with this characteristic so firm
| ly fixed, that when mated even with
| the scrub, or common COWS of the
country, brings about a new type,
| that when compared Individually or
from the production standpoint, or
from the factory returns, a great
transformation has taken place both
in tpye and production.
| To be a member of the ordinary
or common Breeders Association,
Of which Wisconsin boasts the larg-
est number Of any state in the I'm
ion simply requires a pledge to use
only a pure-bred sire of such breed
ing as represented by the Associa-
ton. The man with a small herd,