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section in Southwestern Ohio where you can find a town with a cer- 

 tain five-mile radius, ten miles diameter, but in that little spot can 

 be found more pure blood livestock, and more kinds than can be 

 found in any like spot anywhere. Almost every breed of livestock 

 that you can think of can be found in that community. A few years 

 ago, of the various Boards of Officers of the National Recording 

 Association of livestock such as Shorthorns and Angus, and sheep, 

 there were one hundred and forty-six located right in this little 

 spot. And when any Internalional Exhibition opens at Chicago, 

 there is at least one, and sometimes three, of the judges selected 

 from this little territory. At St. Louis there were five herds and 

 flocks went from this territory. They won the prizes, and 150 did 

 twice, and 147 were premier or champions of the show, and yet they 

 all came from this little territory. I have known as many as nine- 

 teen carloads shipped from this little point to the Ohio State Fair, 

 and almost every exhibit of the first class. 



Now, I think you can see the value of such a locality if you engage 

 in the livestock business; each man engages in a friendly rivalry 

 to have the best of the class he breeds and by having the different 

 kinds to select from, they draw a high-class of buyers to that com- 

 munity. For instance, say here in Pennsylvania, and out West 

 there are two men who want to buy Oxford rams and Shorthorn 

 bulls, or some Chester White or Duroc hogs. Now, they will get 

 on the train and go where they can buy all these things. JSTow, they 

 have the advantage of each other's counsel and advice when they 

 want to buy, so they go together to a community like the one I 

 have just mentioned. Now, nearly every one of the men I have just 

 spoken of are young men; very few of them have reached the age of 

 fifty years, and yet if I were to name some of these men you would 

 know them as men of national reputation — better known than the 

 average Congressman of the United States, or even of Pennsyl- 

 vania. So I want you to see what can be accomplished in the live- 

 stock business. 



But, you say, we have not got this market; you never will have 

 it unless somebody begins, but I do not know of anything that will 

 make a man ieel within himself that he is of some importance than 

 having first-class livestock to offer. You know how proud a man 

 feels when he wins a prize with his stock. When a man achieves 

 success in other walks of life, there are many things that may con- 

 tribute thereto, but when it comes to the livestock business, it is 

 the work of the man himself that insures success. In the livestock 

 business you have so many exceptions to contend with. There are 

 so many variations. He has to be constantly with his stock, and 

 studying it, and striving to bring it up to a high state of perfection. 

 He is constantly thinking, and he has to be man of education be- 

 cause he is constantly thinking. 



Now, there is another thing that seems to me to be of special 

 importance to the man who starts in the pure blood business. He 

 must not only be a man of education and culture so that he can talk 

 and think intelligently, but he must keep his home and his surround- 

 ings in good condition. When men come four or five hundred miles 

 to see him, he begins to think he is of some importance, and he can- 

 not afford to have them come to a tumble-down place. He must fix 



26—6—1907. 



