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tion yourself. There is no use trying to please 
the fellow ‘who wants all of the protection on 
his side and who isn’t fair enough to give a 
rap as to how you are protected. These 
people are generally the trouble makers and 
curiosity seekers, anyway, and have no value 
to you or anyone else as customers. 
It is not a wise plan to sell stock less than 
five months of age for breeding purposes. The 
reason for this is that no man can tell what the 
breeding value of an animal is going to be 
under that age. If you sell them too young they 
may turn out to be scrubs and that will hurt 
your reputation. If you happen to sell a prize 
winner for little or nothing, that hurts you. 
Stock should not be shipped in the heat of 
summer. The express messengers are not as 
careful of live stock shipments as they should 
be, and it is not at all out of the ordinary to 
have a whole shipment smothered in the 
summer. The best time to ship stock is in the 
Spring and Fall. Winter shipments can also 
be carried on successfully, provided you are 
careful to fix the shipping crates so that the 
