THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI. )U)7 



he benefits himself indirectly by helping the breed he reprsents and there 

 is a compensation in the knowledge that he is improving the quality of 

 his cattle and is the owner of some good ones even though they may no* 

 all be first prize winners. It encourages him and makes him feel that he 

 is on the right track. 



Although it is not the point 3u question we would add that a man 

 with good common business sense only may make a financial success iu 

 handling pure-bred stock without being sufficiently versed in the business 

 to become a successful exhibitor. There are many men who are doing 

 this, some of them treating it as a side issue only. They have started 

 with good foundation stock though and make it a practice to buy good 

 sires as they need them. 



Wrn. T. Potts: My experience in the show business extending over a 

 period of nearly twenty years convinced me that very few men make 

 much if any money directly out of the show business, but any one with 

 a good herd can make money indirectly by getting his cattle out where 

 people can see them. But as the shambles are the end of all cattlo I 

 found that to castrate a few good calves each year and fit them for the 

 fat stock shows was the best of all, though in fitting for the fat stock 

 show a man must not think a calf too good for that purpose and castrate 

 an inferior one. None of them are too good if you expect to win. 



Jas. A. Funkhouser: Taking it for granted that the young man 

 means to go into the business of breeding as a permanent one I think it 

 pays to show. In conjunction with newspaper advertising it shows that 

 we have what we represent. Again it brings us in contact with other 

 breeders and gives us a much larger personal acquaintance with men In 

 our own calling. But the most valuable of all the experience we get and 

 the lessons we learn is the opportunity we have to compare our cattle 

 with other men's cattle and our ideas with other men's ideas and tnus 

 learn the good from the bad. 



W. C. Edwards & Co.: Speaking generally it is our opinion that ii 

 will not pay an inexperienced breeder to go into the show business. It is 

 better for him to have quite a good deal of experience before he tries it 

 and then he should only begin moderately, showing one or two animals at 

 first. All who attend great shows going about intelligently acquire a 

 great deal of knowledge, but perhaps the greatest experience is acquired 

 by those who engage in showing. 



There are many sides to this question. It is quite true that showing 

 is a good method of advertising, but then there is showing and showing. 

 It is our opinion that those who persistently show, fitting the best of 

 their aged cattle for show purposes, considering the high fix in which 

 they are now brought out, do so to the deterioration of their general 

 herds and as a consequence many of the very best and most successful 

 breeders never show. The excessively high feeding which is generally prac- 



