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because, as in all other businesses, the breeding 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 gi'eat army of improved stock breeders must come from the 

 third or last class of individuals herein referred to. To the majority 

 of men "money talks," therefore one of the first things to be done is to 

 convince the unconverted farmer that by discarding the scrub, grade or 

 nondescript sire and by placing him with a good and carefully select- 

 ed 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 ia 

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

 try 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 permenent than that of 

 farming because the entire population looks to the farmer to be both fed 

 and clothed. The farmer operates the machinery supplying the raw mater- 

 ial which furnishes the world with all of the necessities, also a multi- 

 tude of the luxuries of life. With this responsibility, never ending de- 

 mand 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. 



Taken collectively the farms of America, in point of value and produc- 

 tive importance, outrank all other manufacturing institutions combined. 

 Among the manufacturers of commercial commodities vast sums of money- 

 are wisely spent in the investigation of questions and principles, the appli- 

 cation of which will reduce the cost of production, raise the efficiency of 

 the article manufactured, and also to perfect the question of the distribu- 

 tion of the finished product with the greatest economy. This work has 

 been carried to a wonderful state of perfection and when the time comes, 

 if it ever should, that even one-tenth of the intellect and capital is spent 

 in the application of real, not imaginary, economical principles of produc- 

 tion with reference to the farm as a manufacturing institution, then our 

 country will bloom as a rose and the scrub farmer and the scrub animal 

 will be a vanishing species. 



Live stock farming, — by which is meant keeping live stock on the farm, 

 — is, and in the future will be, the only safe means of maintaining the 

 productive qualities of the farm manufacturing plant. Without live 

 stock the capacity of the farm plant is annually decreased because of the 

 inability to return to the soil the fertilizing elements requii'ed to sustain 

 the maximum limit of production. Some will doubtless say — "What has 

 all this to do with the pure bred stock business, as the scrub animal will 

 return as great an amount of fertilizing element to the soil as the pure 

 bred?" -his is true, but where the pure bred, or high grade, excels the 

 scrub in his ability to consume the grain and forage crops of the farm, 

 and, as a machine, most economically convert them into a product for 

 which there is always a demand for the best at top market values. Ex- 

 periment station work, market reports and the practical experience of 



