The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-20
AID MARKETING
OF PUREBREDS
Agencies Cooperate in
, Bringing Together
Buyers and Sellers
of Nation
LISTING is HEEL P
Breeders are Benefited
be Registration of
All Animals

| Yes, raising purebreds it all right
for the fellow who has lots of them,
but how are the chaps who have only
a few animals to sell, going to get
rid of them? The big fellows have
regulations, and know the big buyers
personally, but farmers like me who
have small surplus of purebreds
for sale are often up against it.
This is substantially what William
Brown told his county agent one
afternoon while discussing difficult
les he has experienced in setting a
fair price for few of his fine Here
fords. Fortunately the county agent
was able to tell him of a marketing
service designed to make the selling
of purebred animals easier for the
large and small breeders alike. The
agent showed Brown that the United
States department Of agriculture, in
cooperation with the state agricul-
tural colleges, county agents, and
local cooperative livestock associa-
tions, has undertaken the task of
introducing breeders-buyers and
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| Productions are not confined to stock
men in the same county or state.
Turnout the nation breedsr are be-
coming better acquainted with each
other and with the foreign markets.
Listing Purebreds in Counties
Already in number of counties
the location, age, number and breed
of purebreds is tabulated and placed
on file in the office of the county
agent In some cases monthly re-
ports are prepared, showing the
number of animals for sale and these
are published by the state agents in
marketing. An essential to the plan
is the cooperation of the breeders
within the county. Usually the farm
bureau or county agents office is the
headquarters for the local co-opera-
tive association and the county agent
acts as it's secretary. Thus work
ing unit is formed which can be
readily fitted into the state and ma
tional system of listing all purebred
animals. Many a farmer living in a
community where such Information
has been collected is unaware of per-
sons within a comparatively short
radius of his farm who are engaged
in raising purebred stock.
The state field agents of the
bureau of markets, cooperating with
the animal husbandryman OF the
state college, are second important
factor in the general plan. They aim
to assist buyers either inside or out
side the state. They also aid county
agents in finding animals for club
members and arrange trips for out
of-town buyers, that they may eX-
anime large number of animals at
the least expense. The benefit of
this system is enjoyed by breeders,
large and small, and will increase as a
large number of county and COM
munity organizations ally themselves
with it.
A Nearby Market Overlooked
A Florida stockman desiring to
purchase some Herefords, after MAX
ing what he considered an adequate
inquiry indicated his desire to buy
carload of these cattle in central
Montana, $500 miles away! Later
he found from information supplied
by bureau of markets he could secure
cattle sired by an international grand
champion bull with $50 miles of his
home. Purchase of animals from the
latter herd would have meant not
only great saving of freight, but
acquiring cattle more acclimated to
the south. Furthermore, the risk in
volved in transportation would have
been considerably less.
With the aid Of the data regarding
purebreds-and it is being added to
continually-the bureau of markets
is able to give valuable assistance
to prospective foreign, as we'll as
domestic buyers, Of purebred ami
mails. This branch of the United
States department of agriculture re-
Gently demonstrated the value of it's
information by aiding group of
South Americans in locating herds in
various parts fthe country, and
also arranging for the expectation
of the cattle purchased. Not the
least valuable feature of their as
sistance was due to the fact that the
bureau representatives understood
the methods of South American mar
keting as we'll as those of this
country.
More Associations Should Help
While in many counties co-opera-
tive breeders associations are al
ready actively sharing in compiling
data regarding the location of pure
bred animals, much remains to be
done. County livestock associations
are urged to keep definite, up-to-date
information on file and to inform |
the state field agents in marketing,
and thru them, the Washington Of
fee Of the bureau of markets, United
States department of agriculture, of |
this fact. In this way they will |
render a much needed service to |
their memers, to the livestock in
dustry as a whole and to foreign |
buyers who come to this country for
purebreds to improve their herds.