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mistakes of otliors, pick out the .tiood and take advantage of the knowledge 

 gained f)y them. .Tnst so in the breeding Imsiuess, the breeder who breeds 

 his females to a bull just because he owns him, not only does himself an 

 injury but the cause as well, and if followed up he will reap his reward. 

 "We are living in a progressive age and the Itreeder who will keep abreast 

 of the times, is ever on the alert, and anticipating rather than trying to 

 emulate the wants of the trade is the one who is bound to reap a rich 

 reward. I will leave it to your own judgment which of the two rewards 

 you prefer to reap. 



It is not hard for one to continue in a given business during times of 

 prosperity, but it takes a man with a great deal of patience and persever- 

 ance to do so during times of depression, and one with an indomitable 

 will and dogged tenacity and stick-to-it-ive-ness to continue in the cattle 

 business during such times as we had during the closing years of the last 

 century, and yet he who had the determination and did stick to it, and 

 bred right on as though nothing had happened has been able to take unto 

 himself a great deal of satisfaction in the last few years. As a sculptor, 

 with a chisel and mallet, may make himself famous, so may the breeder 

 of improved live stock becomes famous, for as the one demonstrates his 

 ability to carve out of the marble any tigure he may desire, so should the 

 other demonstrate his knowledge of the art of breeding, so as to carve 

 out, through the mating of animals, his ideal. The fame of the one as 

 well as the other depends entirely upon the results attained. Many people 

 travel far across the seas, to far away Italy and other foreign lands, to 

 view and study the works of many sculptors, and yet many of these same 

 people would not travel far to study the works of a so-called sculptor 

 in live-stock breeding, though the latter is far superior to the former; for 

 has not the other the perfected model before, him, while the latter never 

 has. Of these two sculptors the latter is more, yes, many times more, 

 the benefactor of mankind than the former, for is he not engaged in 

 producing something that is not only ornamental but is one of the 

 necessities of life. 



How many of us have not heard many people look at some picture of 

 live stock and then say, "Well, if they were like that, wouldn't they be 

 beauties " I must confess I used to think that myself, but that is just as 

 one sees it, and while most pictures, of course, have their Hnishing touches, 

 yet they are in the main not exaggerated. But in order to see the animal 

 as the picture presents it to us we must study it. Just so in breeding, 

 in order to determine what bull to breed a certain cow to we must study 

 both animals, watch them and watch their offspring and keep watching, 

 for the art of breeding is not learned in a day, nor in fact, has it ever been 

 mastered by any human l)eing, for was their ever an animal that you could 

 call perfect, and did not need "tixing" somewhere? This being true why 

 should you not take advantage of information, in the way of results, 

 attained by others and apply yourselves to the studying of the art of 



