SELECTION OF BKEEDING ANIMALS. 



IT may seem unimportant to many to dwell 

 upon this branch of our subject; they have al- 

 ready embarked on their venture and they wish 

 only to know how to steer their bark into the 

 desired haven not how to build and fit and lade 

 her. But I must differ with such a position. 

 Beginners are often in search of advice on this 

 subject and know not where to seek it. Others, 

 too, who have made a more or less vigorous be- 

 ginning are in doubt, oftentimes, of the wisdom 

 of their start and need to be confirmed in the 

 correctness of a wise step or warned against 

 proceeding on a wrong path already entered 

 upon. A very voluminous correspondence upon 

 this single topic, extending over many years, 

 has taught me how wide the interest in this 

 matter is and particularly how many make bad 

 beginnings and how fatal such beginnings are 

 to after success. 



I shall have particularly to do here with 

 pure-bred cattle only, for I cannot for a mo- 

 ment think of advising anything so foreign to 

 progress and thrift as that a breeder should set 

 out* with the poetic but unproductive scrub. 

 Incidentally I shall urge upon the owner of that 



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