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is still possible in California to go far enough away 

 to find rich flats and warm slopes and running brooks 

 and shady trees. The stockman should help occupy 

 the State by going beyond the thickly settled areas; 

 this can now be done with less social sacrifice than 

 ever before, because a cheap automobile kills distance. 

 The man who has too little land for stock is closely 

 matched by the one who has too little money. Animal 

 production is beyond all other farming, perhaps, in 

 its demand for adequate investment. It is quicker 

 than some others in return, if all goes well, but there 

 must not only be investment but working capital from 

 the start. 



The introduction of improved live-stock was one 

 of the first enterprises of American settlers. They 

 devoted much effort and money to the undertaking, 

 which was full of difficulties and risks. Eesults in 

 transforming the common stock of the country, as 

 well as in producing pure-bred individuals of notable 

 excellence, were speedily attained. The conditions 

 favoring the growth of domestic animals, which have 

 been noted above, seemed to be accentuated in the 

 development of pure-breds and the wide public recog- 

 nition of their desirability among the pioneers 

 encouraged effort and investment. These funda- 

 mental conditions have continued and have been 

 supplemented not only by a wider recognition of the 

 desirability of pure-breds but by the enactment of 

 laws discouraging ownership of scrub sires in various 

 ways. A concrete indication of the prevalence of 

 pure-bred effort at the present day is found in the 



