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and blossom is full of promise. Hopes of a bountiful crop animate 

 the farmer and he goes forth to his daily toil with renewed energy. 

 He plants carefully and tills his crops unceasingly that they may grow 

 and bring forth, some ten and some a thousand-fold. He rejoices in 

 the plant growth. It is also pleasing to note the growth of animals. 

 Old Queen was a good cow, perhaps, but her heifer, which will soon 

 drop her first calf, bids fair to become a more prolific milker than her 

 mother, both in quantity and quality of the product. How do I know 

 it? Because her sire was of a fine milking strain, and because she has 

 had good care. Being larger than her mother, she no doubt has 

 greater food capacity, and her springing udder and well-placed teats 

 indicate an excellent milker. She is something to feel gratified over ; 

 she's bred up instead of down. That pure-bred brood sow down in the 

 hollow with her young pigs has as fine, or, in fact, the finest litter 

 she ever farrowed. There are two little gilts that are just about the 

 thing, and a boar or two, that, when grown out, will be something fancy. 

 The old sow is a fine specimen of her breed, and the boar was the best 

 to be had in that part of the country. They ought to be good ; they 

 are the best pigs the farmer man has raised on his place. He is proud 

 of them and likes to go out of his way a little so as to pass by the hog 

 house and look at these, and scratch the old mother pig a bit, and 

 see her babies, as they lie in a shining heap in the straw or run about 

 to find out what sort of a world they have come to. The man is 

 proud of his stufif, takes a pride in watching it grow and fill out, and 

 all th? time tries to breed it better and better. They will sell for more 

 than the last litter the mother had, and his motto is, and he sticks to it 

 like a nailer, "Breed 'em up, gentlemen, breed 'em up." See the point? 

 I should consider that I had omitted a very important item of the 

 pure-bred stock business if I failed to refer to the advertising and sell- 

 ing of the stock. There are various good ways and means of reaching 

 the public and calling the buyer's attention to the stock which is to be 

 sold. A letter head, bearing the name of the farm and the owner, the 

 sort of stock bred, and perhaps details of certain animals, calls the atten- 

 tion of correspondents to the business of the writer in a very nice way. 

 Sales are many times made by this agency alone. Local advertising is 

 not productive of many sales, although there is generally considerable 

 buying and selling and exchanging among local breeders. An adver- 

 tisement may be well written and attractive and yet fail to bring buyers 

 because it is in the wrong paper. Agricultural papers which are filled 

 with ads. of patent medicines and nostrum, and get-rioh-quick schemes, 

 are worse than useless for advertising stock, no matter how cheap their 

 terms are, nor how great their circulation. They contain, for the most 



