The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-07-05
TWO Al HIKE
TO VIEW co. HERDS
Two Enjoyable Trips Over the County
To View Farms and
Livestock

miller, -. u, july Z.-Ine peOple OF
our city were excited last Thursday
morning when they saw the autos
gathering in Main street right after
the delightful rain of the night before.
Some wondered if the roads were not
bad, others said Come on! Comet"
What was the uproar all about? Well,
| suppose everybody did not know
that there had recently been formed
in Hand County an organization
known as the Hand County Pure Bred
Livestock Association. the object
being to encourage the growing of
better livestock. These happy people
were going out on a hike to see what
pure bred livestock farmers of Hand
County were actually doing.
Now, everybody knows this about
the law of h%eredity, that like produces
like. Everyone knows that to raise
Plymouth Rock chickens we must set
Plymouth Rock eggs. We all know
that to raise shorthorns or blacks, or
white faced cattle we need a bull of
that type to head the herd-better, of
course, to have the COWS of the same
say it is, to have as many COWS of
that type-pure breds, ! one
is able to own Somebody right here
says, Pure breds are more costly.
why not get the finest individuals,
regardless of pedigree?,, This is the
answer, the pure breds breed truer to
type. Remember this law: The i'm
mediate sire and dam only furnish
One-half the blood, the grandparents
furnish O%ne-fOuTth, the great-grand-
parents one-eigth, and so on, so the
scientist tells us. That often will ac-
count for the colt or calf having a
white spOt-Or sometimes a dam colt
is dropped when We are not expecting
it. There was a white spot on the
grand dam OF a yellow streak in some
old grand sire. If mongrel blood
along the line, it will crop out But
there has beer enough talk about all
this in the years past. 1t is just as
Gladstone says, "One example. is
worth one thousand arguments" You
would have thought so if you bad been
with the mixers and seen them gather
around a lordly bull that cost $4,000
actual cash, or a choice GOV that cost
$1,000, or a herd of such COWS. Wo-
men and men, preachers-all the de-
nominations representative profess
sOrs. These professional men seemed
ready to quit their calling and engage
in the livestock business. When all
these people stopped to think about
the great contribution of the horse
and cow to man for his happiness and
prosperity here on the earth, and
think how man had culled out and
graded up the best of these animals
to this high plane, it made them feel
Ihdl IhSy "Sie SJdHuluS Ill lne pres
ence of God, and they were. "All the
forces in nature are thoughts of God"
says one. Another great mana Con-
gregational preacher says Mature
is Gods first Bible-as holy, as divine,
as direct, as inspired as the printed
Bible" Who says these men are not
correct.
1t would take a whole newspaper
to contain what we saw. We went
from house to house, missing many
houses on account of muddy roads.
We had II cars, all makes and sizes
but every n a seven passenger when
necessary. We saw the big pavilion
at st. Lawrence where pure bred sales
will be held, not quite completed. We
saw big barns lighted by electricity
several of them. We saw the finest
hogs, 700 and 500 Founders. Let me
say this much for the American hog:
He has bought more land, paid off
more mortgages, sent more boys and
girls to college, and put more pianos
in the homes of the people than any
other n agency. May his tribe in