PART VIII 



PAPERS ON 



Live Stock, Agricultural and Miscellaneous 



Topics 



FROM BULLETINS, AGRICULTURAL PRESS AND 



PAPERS READ BEFORE FARMERS' 



INSTITUTES IN IOWA. 



A---Regarding Cattle. 



FEEDING AND FITTING PURE-BRED STOCK FOR SHOW AND SALiJfi 



By J. F. Stoddard, Burden, Kan., at the Kansas Improved-stock Breeders' 

 annual meeting, January 9-11, 1905. 



It makes all the difference in the world how you are going to get 

 together a show herd, whether you are going to purchase it or breed it. 

 It is an easy matter to select a good judge and let him scan the programs 

 for the exhibit, and send him out to buy a herd of stock for show. Almost 

 any one could get up a good show herd if he would do it in this way. 

 But there is another way, and that is to breed your own cattle. I have 

 a great deal of respect for a man who will breed and show his own cattle. 

 I very much prefer that way. I think that is the showman's mission. 



There are a good many requisites in order to be able to do this, and I 

 think the most important one is the selection of the sire at the head of 



