SYSTEMATIC IMPROVEMENT OF ANIMALS I9gI 
improvement is possible except by an outlay of labor and expense 
beyond that even of pure breeding, and at a cost of time far 
beyond that of grading. 
It is difficult to realize why farmers do not more generally 
avail themselves of this perfectly rational and exceedingly eco- 
nomical means of improvement, and see in their yards at once 
crops of uniform young instead of the motley lot that disgrace 
Fic. 30. Medium (butcher) cow, $4.75 per hundredweight 
After Mumford 
most of our barnyards. Their failure to do this is due to noth- 
ing but their failure to look ahead, to figure out the final out- 
come, and to look facts squarely in the face. 
The young people who read these pages can do a lasting 
service by using their influence in every way possible to hasten 
the use of better sires. All old countries have learned the lesson 
long ago. We need to learn it at once. Let the young people 
start it and begin now. 
