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transportation, the high price of feed usually exacted at such times and 

 the strong competition likely to be met with, whether the money value 

 received would equal the outlay. Of course there are notable exceptions 

 to this rule. But the money consideration should not in my estimation 

 control if the best results are to be obtained either in the breeding or 

 exhibiting of cattle. There is something inspiring to the soul of the true 

 breeder in the thought that he is not only helping to keep his choice 

 breed up to the standard it possessed when he began his operations, but 

 that, regardless of pecuniary returns he is aiding largely to increase the 

 merits of cattle as food-producing animals. Success along this line will 

 bring its own reward. 



So I would say to the beginner, procure, by breeding or otherwise, 

 the best specimens of the breed of your choice, properly fit them for the 

 show yard and exhibit them, not with the expectation of taking all the 

 prizes offered, but for the good of the cause you have espoused as well 

 as the advertisement of your own herd. 



I. M. Forbes & Son: As to whether it pays to exhibit cattle or not 

 we will say that while we have never clone much showing we do believe 

 that what showing we have done has been quite beneficial to us, and we 

 believe that it is one of the best advertising mediums any breeder caa 

 have to show his breeding bull and his get if they are good enough to 

 win a fair share of the prizes (and of course the more the prizes the 

 more attraction to the herd). We have always doubted the propriety of 

 showing an aged her as we have felt that it must be injurious to aged 

 cattle to put them into extra high condition. Our showing has been con- 

 fined to young things of our own breeding mostly, and we feel that in 

 has been our best advertising. 



Wallace Estill : If the young man has fully made up hia mind that 

 he is going to make the breeding of live stock a life business and will 

 stay with it I answer yes. If not I think I would advise him to let it 

 alone. In the first place there are many conditions required to make a 

 successful herd of show cattle as well as to be competent to show them. 

 Many a good animal has been turned down in the show yard because the 

 show man was not competent and ought not to have been at that end of 

 the halter. 



The first year or two out the young show man will learn more about 

 cattle and especially show cattle than he would ever know just to sit at 

 home and* breed them. Therefore I think it a fine education for the 

 young breeder to show his cattle. Show cattle must have character, 

 style, conformation and type, and the quicker he recognizes this fact and 

 gets it into the herd the sooner he will be brought into prominence — and 

 the advertising is great. My experience as a show man was the hotter 

 the competition the more I learned and these lessons to a breeder from a 

 breeder's standpoint are priceless. Now as to the advertising it gives 

 and whether it will pay. I answer yes. A herd of successful show cattle 



