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that there are others, and live ones, too progressive, up-to- 

 date, rich countries that are buying the best breeding stock 

 that money can produce. Countries keenly alive to the meat 

 demands of a rapidly growing world that would run their flags 

 up top mast high and belch forth a salute of national combina- 

 lions that would shake with joy the other nations of the earth, 

 to see America running second. 



With the splendid perfection to which modern farming and 

 feeding have attained, and the wonderful methods of fertilizing 

 and inoculating the soil, the extraordinary strides irrigation 

 has made, and the mechanical conveniences now placed in the 

 farmers', breeders' and feeders' hands, stock breeding on 

 modern principles can be made, not only one of, but the most 

 remunerative of all pursuits, as well as one of enthralling inter- 

 est and undreamed of possibilities. 



Compare the range cattle of a few years ago with the 

 Shorthorn, Angus, and Hereford beef cattle of to-day. The 



