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to look into the subject pretty carefully before buying. 

 Think what Longfellow meant in the G-entry herd! In 

 more recent years what a wonderful benefit has come to 

 the breed through the use of Masterpiece, one of the real 

 high priced boars, in the herd of both Lovejoy and Corsa. 

 Longfellow and Masterpiece are names to conjure with 

 today, and they were the products of men who measured 

 the real value of both pedigree and individual merit. 



The young man, starting out in the development of a 

 herd, will do well to secure high class animals, bred well. 

 Better try one good female, a real topper, of both individual 

 merit and with a popular pedigree, than half a dozen com- 

 mon ones. She will pay much the best in the end. That 

 fact has been demonstrated time and again. And the cheap 

 sire is to be avoided. Young men should be ambitious, and 

 get sires that bid fair promise to reproduce offspring of 

 the sort ra demand. If one aspires to sell breeding stock, a 

 cheap pedigree will be the heaviest handicap imaginable. 

 The average man inquires about pedigree, and if he knows 

 what it stands for, he will not want the animal represented 

 by a poor pedigree, excepting at little above pork price. 

 The intelligent discriminating buyer, will not want the 

 stock, however, at any price. If one is not seeking the 

 trade of the select sort, then he might as well step down 

 and out, as a producer of pure-bred stock. 



One should pattern after the successes, not the failures. 

 If the breeder is to have inspiration, it must come to him 

 through a knowledge of the results secured by the men 

 who know how, and who have succeeded. ' ' 



