Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-01-25
BUSINESS SIDE OF
PURE BRED STOCK

The Journal has said, and it is
becoming more and more firmly
convinced with each new develop-
ment in the worlds political and e.
economic affairs, that pure-bred
livestock will prove by far the
most profitable phase of agricul-
ture in Iowa during the next ten
years.
If there is a Farmer in Audu-
bon County who has al liking for
any particular kind OF livestock,
whether it be CATTLE, horses, hogu
or sheep, but who is not planning
to work into pure-bred animals of
that kind very soon, then he
should seriously consider turning
over new leaf in this year of
grace, 1917 Iowa is fast becoming,
indeed we can almost say she has
already become, the center of the
pue-bred livestock industry of
best blood lines are commanding
prices that are hardly believable.
Moreover the tendency is strongly
upward, and it is certain that in
the future still higher prices wilE
prevail. The demand is for the
very best, and the man who can
raise animals of this description
can depend upon prices that will
richly repay him for his trouble.
Pure-bred livestock is not
line into which one may plunge
recklessly. Rather, it is by far
the better plan to- grow into it, be-
i ginning with very few animals and
allowing them with their increase
to replace the scrub herd gradual
lily. Even the houn dation stock shoul
not be purchased without the MOST
careful S sudy Of breed history and
blood lines, for no mistake is
greater than the common one pf
thinking that any pedigreed animal
will do for a start The truth is
instead that in almost every
breed, there are certain families
which so greatly oyershadow all
othe1s in popular favor that it
is Unwise to try TO establish a
hsld from ether a imals of the
breed
1t is evident, a 50, that blood
lines alone are not enough. The
animaEs themselves must be good.
This combination OF good blood
lines and eXcellency of breed type
is the one that irsures success in
!, pule-bred live stock 1t costs con-
siderable money to secure it, but
it is far better to secure two or
thrae such animals for beginning
than more animals OF other lines
of breeding which, though pedigreeG
might be bought for considerably
less money.
Another mistake i'm the pure bred
live stock business is for MANY diff
terent breeds to be represented in
the same community. In this case
small breeders have difficulty i.
finding a market, and rarely il
/, ever do they get what their animals
| are worth If on the other hand
(. all breeders are producing the
u same breed of animals, whether il
be Percheron horses. or Hereford
Angus, Shorthorn, or Holstein cat
: tie, them joint or community sales
!, may be he'd and buyers will come
\ from long distances to make pur.
chases. Moreover. the better the
animals that are being produced
in the community, the farther the
buyers will come and the more
they will pay.
LII a practical suggestion is in or
y der, it is that goodly humber o1
Farmers of the south part of Au-
dubon County, say fifteen or TWEEN
ty at least, get together and by mu-
tual agreement decide upon some
, one breed, which may be what
ever the majority prefers, with
J the understanding that all will, as
soon as possible secure one OF
f more first class animals of this
9 breed to be used as the founda.
a ton of herd.
e After all, why isn't this a pretty
ri good suggestion? The results would
d i not e quick hut they would be
sure pro ided wise judgment were
e used in selecting the Foundation
Q stock.