86 PEDIGREE BREEDING 



benefit such a demand brings to a considerable number of 

 those owning the particular variety that becomes fashionable 

 among foreign buyers. Yet the knowledge that the whole body 

 of breeders may turn their endeavour to producing stock suitable 

 for conditions across the water, though they be unsuitable for 

 the locality where the breed is doing useful work at home, 

 makes me wish that the overseas agent had stayed away. The 

 pity of it is that this state of affairs need not exist. Systematic 

 study of the conditions under which cattle are to be kept, and 

 research into the qualifications of the animals suitable for those 

 conditions would prove that there is plenty of room for the 

 breeder both for the foreign and the home-market. The latter 

 will, of course, have to be paid for the trouble, but here co- 

 operation among our tenant-farmers can and ought, in future, 

 to make the burden a reasonable one and the outlay highly 

 remunerative. 



