50 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Oct. 



7. Multiply stock until there is a reasonable amount for the 



market. 



8. Advertise and exhibit at shows, make a name for your stock. 



9. Stay at the business until it pays. 



10. Become master of selling. 



Perhaps the danger points in the above are that a man's 

 capital or nerve may be so limited that he starts with inferior 

 animals or plants. In the case of animals it frequently takes the 

 co-operation of the farmers of a whole community to enable them 

 to use a high-priced animal on females enough to make it pay to 

 keep a valuable horse, bull, sheep, or pig. Of course, a man who 

 starts before he masters the laws of breeding may retard his 

 chances of success before he knows what he is doing. Another 

 danger where many men have lost money is not staying in the 

 business long enough. In animal breeding there are few men 

 who have made any money before they have been at the breeding 

 for ten years. Corn breeding takes three years before we have 

 enough for our own fields. Again some have advertised so heavily 

 before they had sufficient stock for the market, that it became 

 necessary and hence easy for others to step in and take much of 

 the profits. Some men are poor salesmen. Such men must breed 

 for regular dealers or not expect to make money in the business. 

 Making money by breeding plants or animals is no easy matter, 

 however a farm.er may take one line, as corn for example or horses 

 or cattle, and in time he may become very well-to-do by breeding 

 and selling superior individuals. 



Now for the laws of plant and animal breeding. But again 

 it is necessary to stop long enough to say that that the production 

 of superior plants and animals is controlled by laws. We maj^ 

 not think so. We may not know the laws but that does not alter 

 the fact. The man who comes nearest to knowing the laws is the 

 man who has the advantage. 



The laws to which I wish to call attention are the following : 



Lav/s of Plant and Animal Breeding. 



1. The law of heredity which says similar tends to produce 

 similar. 



