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an exceedingly complex one to the man who aims for the highest 

 results. It is easy enough to breed for milk ; it is easy enough to 

 breed for butter; and just as easy to breed for form, but animals 

 that possess all three essentials are scarce and high. Granted, and 

 that is just the reason why we should breed them. It would not pay 

 to undertake the difficult task were it not for the prospect of realizing 

 good prices for our labor The man who paints the best pictures never 

 wants for a customer. Cows such as I am talking about bring 

 three and sometimes four figures each. If you doubt it, just 

 endeavor to purchase a few, and see how far I am out of the way. 

 But all who attempt to reach an ideal standard in practical results 

 will fail to a greater or less extent. We can only approximate an 

 ideal standard. There are subtle forces at work in this matter of 

 breeding over which we seem to have no control. Note two animals, 

 full brothers or full sisters, and behold how different ! Have you 

 not seen the same thing, too, in the human family ? There is no 

 greater field for thought and study than this subject of breeding. 

 It lifts the l)usiness of farming above the "hum drum" existence of 

 the old methods. It is a field worthy the mind of a philosopher and 

 right in the line of practical, every-day life at that. Stock breed- 

 ing in America to-day is engaging many of our best minds. Look 

 at the advances which have been made within the memor}- of us all. 

 The improvement in the trotting horse, the draft horse, the beef 

 animal and the dairy animal. All go to show that a skill has been 

 exercised and a progress realized during the past twent3'-five years 

 that finds no parallel in the history of nations. 



For the 3'oung man there is a great future in agriculture His 

 work is not that of yesterday but is the work of to-day. Full}' 

 abreast of the times, with an eye ever open to the future — filled 

 with the spirit of energy and perseverance, and with the exercise of 

 good judgment he cannot fail of a large measure of success. He 

 does not need therefore to leave the country to find a business that 

 will require all the brain activity that he can command. Then stick 

 to the farm. 



But will it pay? How many a young man aski* that question. 

 And who blames him? American standards of success are mainly 

 measured by whether a thing pays or not My reply is that much 

 more depends upon the man than upon the business he engages in 

 whether it pays or not. Daniel Webster is said to have once 

 remarked that "there is plenty of room up higher." It seems to 



