The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-06-22

lem deserving more
attention, and confronting the Ameri-
can people more forcibly, than the pro-
duction of meat animals, especially
beef animals, to furnish food for this
great American nation, which is in
creasing at a rate nothing short of
marvellous.
All arguments on the merits of the
beef breeds should be based upon
practical or scientific foundation.
America is a country of science with
practice, thus no up-to-date American
should lag in the ruts of theory or
listen to dreams that belong to the
categories of hypothesis. To present
the true merits of the Aberdeen-Angus
breed of cattle, the results of the lead
ing Live Stock Shows and Expositions
have been used where the leading beef
breeds of cattle have been in direct
competition, both in Great Britain and
America.
It is conceded by all leading cattle
authorities that practical and scientific
production of beef has reached a
higher degree of excellence in Great
Britain and America than in any other
countries of the world. 1t is further
conceded that the marvellous results
obtained have been accomplished
chiefly by the object lessons presented
at the great Live Stock shows.
There are scarcely fifty million beef
animals in the United States and con-
siderably less than half million pure
bred living registered animals in use
for the purpose of improving the quail
ity Of beef animals. In other words,
there is only about, one purebred ami
NAL to every one hundred grades and
scrubs. A full realization of these
facts should convince every breeder,
stockman and farmer, as well as those
interested in the cattle industry, that
the purebred cattle business and the
beef cattle Record Associations are on
sound, solid foundation, although
merely in their infancy.
Those who have any doubt about
the value of pure blood need only
make a general survey of the improve
ment that has been wrought on the
native and range cattle of our country
during the past twenty-five or thirty
years, or since pure blood has been
permanently established. The great
continual success of the fat stock
shows of Great Britain and the United
States is chiefly due to the systematic
use of pure blood, and this progress can
be wholly attributed to the fertile
brains of the purebred breeders who
have labored as pioneers, as 1t were,
without the assistance of government
legislation or aid from leading CAPT.
talists.
This immense cattle industry which
has grown to such proportions and
spread over such vast territories of
this country, has its sheet anchor or
foundation in the use of pure blood,
and it is dependent on the use of pure
bred animals to maintain the perfee-
ton already reached. There is moth
ing that will do more to attain greater
perfection in beef cattle than the use
of more purebred Aberdeen-Angus, or
some of the other recognized beef
breeds. If the purebred cattle asso-
Citations and their members were to
forsake their noble work, calamity
to the cattle industry would result,
and there would soon be a deteriora-
ton to the old-time dogies and scrubs.
The purebred cattle associations and
the systematic methods of keeping
purebred animals are here to stay as
long as our country continues to be
leader in livestock farming.
The writer is fully convinced it is
only a short time until the real sig
nificance and power of the purebred
beef cattle interests will be recognized
and appreciated in much higher de-
gree by everyone interested in cattle,
the Government and people of the
country generally. Breeders of Aber-
deen-Angus cattle have every reason
to feel proud of the renewed proof
which the breed has afforded during
the past fat stock show season of it's
supSilol plOINl tleS III TSBdIu u pStl
production. Scarcely a show of any
importance has passed which has not
seen Aberdeen-Angus animals or
crosses of that breed occupying places
of honor, and to a greater degree
than ever before perhaps has the cross
between Aberdeen-Angu. and Short
horn lines of breeding dominated the
crossbred classes at I'll. various shows.
Both in England, in S. lland, in Ire
land, and at the greatest of Americas
fat stock shows have the superior mer-
its of this great beef producing breed
been proclaimed, for at all the leading
shows of these countries purebred
Aberdeen-Angus animals, or crosses of
that breed, carried off every honor for
which they could compete, .,
(First of d series of articles on the
purebred cattle industry, containing
facts and figures of striking ifhpor-
lance and value to every farmer and
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