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inclined may secure a breed to hi.s liking. There doubtless is 

 no stock on the farm that pays better for the money invested 

 in it than the i)oultry. 



The income received from scrub stock may, in many cases, 

 be doubled by replacing the scrubs with pure-breds of a 

 uniform type and breeding. In this connection we might 

 profitably quote from an address delivered before the National 

 Association of Live Stock Agents, at Kansas City. The 

 speaker states that " some people say that blooded stock need 

 good stables, high feeding, and all kinds of pampering and 

 petting." The first natural impulse, when such things are 

 said, is to deny them. The statement that some of this pure- 

 bred stock can out-grow the scrub, out-fatten him and out- 

 sell him under any circumstances Avithin reasonable bounds 

 cannot be denied ; but the correct answer to this is, that the 

 pure-bred animal is able to })ay for all his luxuries with the 

 money he will surely earn. He should ])e pampered and 

 fed because that is what is o-oino-to make him bring the highest 

 market price, and every pound consumed over the food of 

 support gives profit to his owner. 



Another illustration is furnished in the feeding of steers 

 for market by two neighbors. Forty high-grade Shorthorn 

 and Herefords, three 3^ears old, were fed one hundred and 

 two days on cotton-seed meal and hulls, and when sold 

 weighed 1,250 pounds, and brought $().oO per hundred. 

 The other Jiative scrub three-year-olds, fed on the same feed, 

 weighed 748 pounds, and brought 4 cents per pound. 



What is true of animals raised in the west for beef is equally 

 true of our dairy animals in the east. While it is not possi- 

 ble for all farmers to build up a herd of piu'e-breds, it is 

 possible and profitable for each one to breed from a pure- 

 bred male, thereby establishing a uniform herd, that can 

 only be excelled by that breed in its })urity. Great care 

 should be taken in selecting a bull to build up a herd. His 

 ancestors for tAvo or more generations back should possess in 

 a marked degTee the characteristics which the breeder intends 

 to develop and improve upon in his own herd. In order to 

 get the best results, judicious inbreeding may be practised. 

 Having secured a sire of the desired quality, retain him luitil 

 his heifers come to milk. MauA^ a valuable animal has been 



