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few years you will have pure Berkshires, which 

 can be sold at a profit for breeding purposes, or 

 turned over to the packer. It is jvist as easy to do 

 the same thing with Poland Chinas, or Durocs, 

 Chester Whites, or Mule Foot hogs, or any other 

 of the standard breeds. Another thing, above all 

 others, to be observed, is to get rid of unprofitable 

 individuals and never, under any circumstances, use 

 an inferior or grade sire. Always have a pure-bred 

 male and see that he is a good one. 



SELECTING BREEDING STOCK 



The matter of intelligently selecting breeding 

 stock calls for the nicest discrimination. While 

 breeding animals must be pure bred, it does not 

 always follow that a pedigreed animal is a desirable 

 one. A lot of pedigreed scrubs have done untold 

 damage to the breeding interests of this country. 

 The individuality of the animal must be considered. 

 If an animal has not proper conformation, if vigor 

 and constitution are not present, if prepotency does 

 not exist, there will be no satisfaction, to say noth- 

 ing of profit. 



The first thing to do in selecting a breeding 

 animal is to consider blood lines very carefully. 



Find out what his ancestors have done, what 

 their records are at shows and at the block. If 

 you are breeding fast horses, look up the racing 

 records of ancestors back as far as possible, at least 

 eight to ten generations. If breeding beef cattle 

 find out the show records of ancestors and how 

 popular they have been with beef raisers. All 

 these things must be given very careful considera- 

 tion. If the pedigree is right and if the individual 

 is right, and if the breed selected is your favorite. 



