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all right, but if you depend on me, I will not send you any scrubs. I do 

 not price a ram under a certain standard when it is left to me, but when 

 a fellow comes and sees it, if he wants to buy it at my price, he can buy 

 it at home or abroad, 



Mr. Kurtz — This subject of selling at home or abroad is a very 

 interesting subject to me, and to be frank and honest in the matter, I 

 feel that my neighbors have a right to expect some little concessions in 

 my case. I feel that when I am making concessions to my neighbors 

 whom I know and who desire to engage in elevating the quality of their 

 cattle or hogs but who are limited in means and have had no experience 

 in this line of elevating the standard of their animals by breeding to 

 pure bred males, I am not only helping them but I am helping myself. 

 I am not only helping- myself, I am not only helping the neighborhood 

 and helping the cause of elevation to a higher standard of animals, but I 

 feel that I am elevating and helping the standard and the commercial 

 influence in the way of selling pure bred animals by encouraging that 

 class of people to buy those animals to start with. 



Mr. Mumford — The majority of this audience are young men who 

 perhaps have had no experience yet in the live stock business and there 

 are two or three of the speakers who have touched upon a subject that 

 is of fundamental importance in the buying- of pure bred live stock. I 

 suppose our live stock record associations are as well managed as it is 

 possible for such associations to be managed, and it is probably true that 

 the animals reg-istered in our live stock record books ought to be regis- 

 tered in the great majority of cases, but I need not say to the experienced 

 breeders here, but there is a g-reat opportunity for the registration of 

 animals that are not entitled to reg-istration and that no young man or 

 old man either can afford to buy from any breeder of pure bred live 

 stock who is not thoroughly reliable, for two or three reasons. If a 

 man is thoroughbred, his. stock is certainly thoroughbred. 



Another thing", every reliable breeder who lives up to his contract 

 stands ready at all times to make good what he promises to do and it is 

 a very important thing- in the buying of live stock, as these gentlemen 

 will say, 



I know of a man who imported two very valuable Shropshire rams 

 from England. One of them unfortunately died on the way over and 

 was consigned to the ocean, but in some way or other by the time he 

 landed on his farm he had two imported Shropshire rams that he sold 

 as imported rams at a very high price. 



I heard of another case. T know a young- man who has a very large 

 trade in registered Shropshire rams — the western trade — and who, so 



