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have been made ; the second group embraces a very large class known 

 as the thoughtless, indifferent, happy-go-lucky sort of fellows, who 

 rarely give any subject serious or deliberate consideration; then there 

 is the third class which includes the uninformed, but ambitious and 

 willing to learn and profit from the knowledge and experience of suc- 

 cessful men who have gone before them. It has been said that "There 

 are none so blind as those who will not see." It is, therefore, almost 

 useless to spend time in the vain effort to convert the proverbial un- 

 believer — the man who without good reason sets his head against 

 progression. In order to exert an}'- beneficial influence upon the class 

 enumerated in our second group it is necessary to make forcible, direct 

 appeals, and this is scarcely ever accomplished except at public sales 

 and by the personal force and logic of the auctioneer who, for the 

 time, may, perchance, have one or several of this indifferent class of 

 people withm his influence and thereby induce him or them to become 

 purchasers. Even when this is accomplished the chances are that in 

 quite a per cent of instances the new convert will revert to his orig- 

 inal shiftless, indilTerent habits and, as a consequence, little ground 

 will have been gained, because, as in all other businesses, the breed- 

 ing of pure bred stock to be successful requires studious habits and 

 a willingness to give attention to, at least, the details of ordinary care 

 and management. It, therefore, remains for us to conclude that a very 

 large majority of the new recruits in the future great army of im- 

 proved stock breeders must come from the third or last class of in- 

 dividuals herein referred to. To the majority of men "money talks," 

 therefore, one of the first things to be done is to convince the im- 

 converted farmer that by discarding the scrub, grade or nondescript 

 sire and by replacing him with a good and carefully selected pure 

 bred he will thereby be money in pocket instead of out. That such is 

 the case is no longer a theory, but is a fact being demonstrated in 

 every enlightened community, also at the live stock markets of the 

 country on every business day of the year. 



Every business that permanently succeeds must rest upon a broad 

 and well grounded foundation. No business is more permanent than 

 that of farming, because the entire population looks to the farmer to 

 be both fed and clothed. The farmer operates the machinery supply- 

 ing the raw material which furnishes the world with all of the neces- 

 sities, also a multitude of the luxuries of life. With this responsi- 

 bility, never ending demand and unsurpassed outlet for our products, 

 we have not to consider so much the finding of a market as we have 

 to give thought to economical and profitable production. 



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