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Canada, because of the preponderance of English 

 and Scotch. This is largely a sentimental reason. 

 In the United States, where sentiment plays 

 a smaller part, the Percheron is probably the 

 most popular horse, because of his activity, his 

 clean limbs and his value as a general purpose beast 

 of burden. 



Rambouillet and Merinos are popular on the 

 western ranges because of their great rustling qual- 

 ities and hardy constitution. 



Consequently, because of the great variety of 

 tastes and varying conditions of soil and climate, 

 there will always be representatives of the leading 

 breeds of live stock, widely distributed. It makes 

 very little difference what breed is chosen, pro- 

 vided it is suited to the purpose for which it is 

 purchased. There are excellent animals in all 

 breeds, so that if one man prefers a Hereford, an- 

 other a Shorthorn, and a third a Galloway, all of 

 these breeders have a splendid chance to succeed, 

 because they believe thoroughly in their favorite 

 types and will build up a profitable herd. 



SELECTING BREEDING ANIMALS 



After the blood lines are determined upon, after 

 the selection has been carefully made, after the 

 breed has been decided upon, it must not be for- 

 gotten that, after all, the most important item is 

 quality. Quality is a rather difficult term to de- 

 scribe, because it has a different meaning applied 

 to different purposes. In general, it means a high 

 grade animal, thrifty, compact and vigorous In 

 every particular. Taking beef cattle, there are two 

 divisions of quality. Generally speaking, quality 

 means refinement of external conformation, as seen 



