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We are confidently looking forward to the time when another 

 Hawaiian Live Stock Breeders' Association will be formed. I 

 feel that then and only then will the highest point in the live 

 stock industry of this Territory be reached. 



PRESENT SYSTEM OF BREEDING. 



Breeding is an art ; there is nothing haphazard about it. Great 

 breeders, like great poets, are born, not made. Few can achieve 

 the signal success of Bates, Bakewell, Booth Bros, and Colling 

 Bros., nor is it necessary that all should, but to achieve any 

 degree of success, certain laws in breeding must be followed and 

 a certain type held in view ; otherwise it is time and money 

 wasted. The breeder must have a keen eye for details, be able 

 to note unerringly the various characteristics desirable in the 

 type he has in mind, and use only those animals for breeding 

 whose prepotency is such as to stamp their offspring with those 

 desirable characteristics. 



The past ten years has seen great advances in practically all 

 lines of animal industry in this Territory. Hundreds of pure- 

 bred animals of all classes have been imported from the main- 

 land, New Zealand and Australia. These have made and are 

 making their impress on the various herds, and it is through 

 this means that the old native stock is being rapidly replaced 

 until it is rare now to find any of the old type, if we may so 

 misuse the term, and on many ranches they have entirely disap- 

 peared. 



Live stock breeders in this Territory have awakened to the 

 fact that it is much more profitable to breed high-class animals 

 than scrubs, and so they are every year importing the very best 

 type of pure-bred stock in ever-increasing numbers. 



The importation of this class of breeding stock and the raising 

 of pure-bred and high-grade animals is the one and only solution 

 of the problem confronting us, i. e., whether or not this Terri- 

 tory can become self-supporting so far as animal products are 

 concerned. 



Every year more and more land is being taken up for home- 

 steading purposes. This land is coming from the various plan- 

 tations and ranches, and as far as the ranches are concerned it 

 means that fewer animals can be kept. How^, then, is the in- 

 creasing demand for meat and dairy products to be met by 

 breeders? Simply by the increased quality, condition and earlier 

 maturity of the one, and increased productivity of the other, both 

 depending upon the use of the highest type of pure-bred stock 

 according to the class. 



It will be seen, then, that the present system of breeding con- 

 sists largely of the introduction of increasing numbers of pure- 

 bred stock, which are steadily changing the entire conformation 

 of all the herds in the Islands, until now there is no comparison 



