Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-11-14

ADefdeen-AnguS cattle, OF ClyueSdale
horses, CIV of Collie dogs. Your
picture of England is likely to be of
purcbred Herefords or Shorthorns.
And you have a sort of feeling of rev.
erence toward them.
Do you think of America, from
live stock standpoint, in that way?
OF course not. You think of it as a
meat-producing country, range
country, grade cattle country.
Both estimates are, in manner,
correct. But, to the individual farm
er on the Island of Jersey or in the
white-face country of England or the
black-cattle country of Scotland, the
matter of having his animals pure
bred is simply matter of doing
what everybody else is doing. It is
easier - or, to say the least, just as
easy.to do it as not to do it.
Until just now, that condition
never existed in the United States;
it does exist now. Communities have
organized and are organizing still
more closely. Breeding associations
are being formed with secretaries
who can give help in keeping the
records of all animals straight, one
of the things with which the small
farmer operating alone has greatest
difficulty. When q community or
ganizes and starts raising purebred
stock of any kind, it brings q mar
ket for that kind of stock to the
door of every farmer in the commu-
nifty. The man who, oper ting alone,
could not have sold purebred ami
NAL for dollar more than he could
have got for good grade animal can
get the worth of every animal he
raises under the community system.
America has the opportunity Just
now to develop as a great breeding
institution. South America wants
purebred "stuff" AS an indication
of how active the want is, Argentina
recently appropriated 100000 to
encourage the importation of pure
breds. II the United States gets any
considerable portion of the business
In South America, department ex-
perts say. it must be because Amer
lean animals compete successfully on
final test with animals from any
where else in the world They see
no trouble in doing that. with dairy
cattle, where production is the test
The thing to be done is to give the
South Americans what they want in
dairy cattle.
There is likely, also, to be pretty
big market in France for American
purebred dairy cows. The problem
of supplying. that demand is some
what different from the South Amer
lean problem. France wants a gen.
eral-purpose COW, while the United
States is the home of the specialized
cow The thing that has to be done
In that case is to give France the
specialized dairy COW that most near
ly meets the requirements, with the
hope that when her production rec
ords show up they will be so good
that other Frcnehmen will want
other cows like her.
But. after all, the big market for
purebred animals is at home. The
same facts that apply to foreign mar
kets ought to apply to beginners in
this country. Take the man who has
been operating a dairy farm with
grade COWS. Let him have a pure
bred that not only looks better than
any COW he ever owned before, but
also produces better. and he is pretty
certain to start substituting pure
breds for his grades. If he gets a
poor producer. of course, he is likely
to make up his mind that "the pure
bred business is mostly bunk" Com
munity organization tends to see to
it that the beginner gets a good pro-
Queer, which. in turn, tends to make
him steady customer for purebred
cows until he has placed his herd on
purebred basis
Now that he can afford to do it, |
the small farmer should give him
self the pleasure-and the actual