The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-20
BREEDING GOOD CATTLE

r BREEDING GOOD CATTLE
Some amusing comments made by
people with little knowledge of the
subject under discussion have been
made about Mr.. Williamson's recent
purchases of high priced cattle. Some
of these people seem to think that a
man who pays $1,000 or more for
cow, is "stung." Of course such re-
marks are made by people who know
nothing of the livestock business and
the high prices paid for good ami
mails, bred in the purple" as they say
of the aristocrats of the show rings.
A sale of Jersey cattle, the pretty
little cows fit only for one purpose
to give rich milk-held at Carlton,
Oregon last Monday gives some idea
of what men who know the value of
well bred cattle are willing to pay
for cows that have the proper breed
ing. One COW sold for $500 at the
Carey sale of Jerseys at Carlton, Ore
gon, Monday, and her calf, only 10
days old, sold for $1,000. At this sale
81 head of Jerseys, bred by Mr.. Ca
rey, sold for $4,000, or more than
$11O0 per head, which includes calves
from 10 days to few months old.
Elsewhere in this issue we publish
an account of the sale of an Aberdeen
Angus COW for $1,000 at Holbrok,
Iowa, on May %, when At females of
the Angus breed sold for an average
of 1888 per head They were all
purebred, registered cattle, with fine
pedigrees and were bought by men
who have made fortunes in raising
such stock.
Another article in this issue tells |
of sale of Jersey cattle at Albany,
Oregon, where SO head, including
calves, brought an average of $345.50
per head This was the sale of Henry
Stewart, and all of the cattle, with
a single exception, were bred and rails
ed on his farm, the total amount re-
ceived at this sale was $17,275, not
bad sale for one man, when he had |
raised all of the cattle but one on his
little farm.
The man who goes into the cattle
business and breeds the very best
that can be secured, let them be Here
ford, Angus, Galloway, Shorthorns,
Holsteins, Jerseys, Guernseys, Alder
neys or any other breed, so they are
purebred and carry the best blood of
their breeds, is certain to make
fortune in very few years.
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There is a grim meaning in the
statement from London that the big
British dirigible may fly eastward
instead of westward next Monday"
1t would be far greater honor and I
service to the world if the big balloon t
were to sail over Berlin and drop a I
few bombs just to let the German i
people who backed the kaiser in his y
cruel war as long as there was any S
hope of winning, know what had been r
done to London and Paris and other t.
centers of population in the allied a
countries.
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There are several reasons against
printing the full text of the treaty
with Germany, as it has escaped out
II the political Pandora box One
b that there are $4,000 words of it.
knother is that it's commences has to
- taken on trust, and the trust is
vt very secure one. And the last'I
r that the President of the United
Hates has deprecated the publica-
i'm, as contrary to the best interests
Z she country, andl that should be =
final. Christian Science Monitor. q
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If war. against Germany is resum- Of Of
1 Monday, we misjudge the char y y
ter of the allied airnen if some of ap
|Gem do not fly over Amerongen,1 on
LELAND, where the former kaiser is pc
/ hiding, and drop few bombs on gu
Ne castle that gives him shelter. Few ri ri
en would be able to resist the temp dis
ltion to do this if they had the OPP no
pal
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Rain is needed here but rain will prt
me in time to save the crop. That ma
the prediction of farmers and 9th me
S who have lived long in the Palouse Gin
untry The prospect has not been F