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understood as not advocating any particular breed. This choice I 
leave to you. I shall speak only as pertaining to general health, 
purity, and soundness. Here I wish your close attention. “Like 
begets like.” This physiological law should never be lost sight 
of for a single moment. Nothing is more certain ; nothing is, or 
can be, of equal importance to it with the breeder of stock. Upon 
the observance of this law rests very materially the fact as to- 
whether we shall have our country largely overspread with 
scrubby, unthrifty, unprofitable and diseased stock, or become 
noted for our close attention, perseverance and skill as a nation 
of stock growers, and no other nation upon earth has better natu¬ 
ral facilities for carrying out to perfection this manly, health 
giving, pleasing and profitable business. 
What so pleasant as for a man to walk around and look with 
pride and satisfaction upon his thrifty, healthy animals? “They 
hear his voice and do follow him,” as all animals will, if properly 
and humanely treated and cared for. 
Housing , Ventilation. All our animals, to be healthy, must have 
a good house for shelter, plenty of uncontaminated pure air, and 
above all the glorious, the revivifying, life engendering sunlight. 
Without God’s beautiful sun, naught can possibly thrive or be 
healthy. Gentlemen, allow me if you please, to impress upon 
you this fact, for I assure you much indeed does it concern your 
individual interests. 
The next point toward perfection is the fact that all animals, 
man included, to be healthy and pure, must be properly fed and 
watered. Bad, malarious water, or water rendered impure from 
whatever cause, should never be given to our domestic animals, 
any more than we would partake of such ourselves, or give it to 
our dear young children. To repeat one of my remarks at the 
Whitewater convention, “As you cannot obtain pure water from 
an impure spring, even so can you not obtain pure food from im¬ 
pure sources, whether of food, water, or disease, especially the 
latter.” These last remarks, refer chiefly, of course, to our beef, 
mutton, cheese, butter, milk, etc., but are of equal importance 
to the horse, with his almost human intelligence, delicate organ¬ 
ism and proneness to malarious influences. Then I repeat, feed 
wholesome food and water to all your animals, and fear not; you 
