578 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



How to conduct a successful public sale, when and where to hold it, 

 how to advertise, when to begin to condition the stock for sale, just the 

 kind of a catalogue to issue and when it should be out, the auctioneer to 

 employ, how to entertain your customers sale day and various other ques- 

 tions are each subjects which might be considered at some length, but 

 they are outside the legitimate limitation of our subject. In conclusion 

 I will say that, in my opinion, the inter-relation of the public sale and the 

 pure bred stock business will, in the future, grow stronger and become 

 more potent for good alike to the breeder, buyer and the public in general. 



STARTING IN PURE-BRED CATTLE. 



s. R. YOUNKEY, BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA, in Breeders' Gazette. 



On Sept. 14, 1900, I bought a Hereford cow, with heifer calf at foot 

 and bred again. On March 26, 1901, she dropped another heifer calf. 

 I then bought a registered bull and began breeding Hereford cattle. My 

 herd has increased so I now have 13 head from the two purchases, having 

 soiu one bull calf in the meantime. I sold the bull first bought and 

 replaced him with another. 



It takes but a short time to establish a herd of cattle by starting in 

 a small way. My first calves were females, which was very fortunate. 



As to profit, I think that after the first purchase price is paid, it costs 

 no more to raise these good cattle than the common kind, and if they can- 

 not be sold at satisfactory prices for breeders I can ahvays get the top 

 prices in the market; the pedigree will not taste on the beef. 



I intend to build up a herd of registered cattle by replacing grades with 

 registered ones as fast as I can produce them. 



As to the $30,000 proposition, I think it unnecessary. I do not own a 

 foot of land and my cattle help to pay the rent. If more farmers would 

 breed pure-bred cattle in a small way and sell the surplus to be slaught- 

 ered our country would have more wealth and so many market reports 

 would not read: "Not enough good cattle to go around." Besides it is 

 more pleasure to have a herd of cattle uniform in make and markings 

 than a herd of mostly scrubs. 



