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tion to the great mixture we had in this country. And the best 

 cattle that I have ever bred, and the best, I believe, that have ever 

 been bred up to this time, have been bred with that kind of breed- 

 ing and that kind of blood, all wisely and properly mingled to- 

 gether. That is my prescription for breeding good Shorthorns. 

 That is what I would dearly love to see all through this country. 

 The time is coming when we are going to have an immense market 

 opened up. 



We have not in this country a one-hundredth part of the pure 

 bred cattle which we are going to and must have. Why, there are 

 not enough Shorthorns in the United States today to properly sup- 

 ply the needs of Missouri, and as land becomes more valuable and 

 rises in price, and gets to be one hundred dollars and upwards in 

 all regions, the time is coming when there will not be a section of 

 farm land in one of our States that does not maintain upon it a 

 pure bred bull of some description. We will be forced to do it. We 

 can not afford to use inferior feed or inferior stock on such valu- 

 able farms. We must pay interest on all this rapidly rising land, 

 and they are already going back to cattle breeding in the Eastern 

 States to do it. 



I have often thought about the needs of Kansas. She has in 

 her limits eighty thousand square miles, the eastern half of which 

 is all farming country — forty thousand sections of farm land. Up- 

 on all those sections should be maintained a pure bred bull. 



Illinois has fifty-nine thousand square miles of land. Upon 

 every acre of that land, outside of the cities, should be maintained 

 a pure-bred bull. Much of this land has come to be worth $100, 

 $150 and $200 an acre in many parts of Illinois, and it is only by 

 using earlj' maturing cattle, with the highest possible feeding 

 qualities and the greatest amount of utility in every direction, that 

 we can afford to grow stock at all. We must grow stock; we can- 

 not escape it. God has made the world so there is no other way 

 of keeping up the land and sustaining the human race upon it ex- 

 cept by raising live stock. 



I remember an incident on my visit to Eastern England that 

 impressed me most forcibly. I was walking upon the field of . . . . 



Colonel Godfrey said that land had never 



been broken since the Scotch and English were locked in the 

 throes of their dreadful conflict upon it. He opened up a drain 

 and found there a great accumulation of stag horns, which, he said, 

 were from the stags driven there in great droves after the Scotch 

 army. That land had maintained its fertility. It was as rich 



