3 io WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
cattle, sheep or hogs as a specialty, keeping a few horses, and 
make it all profitable. 
In breeding stock of any kind, keep the best or as near the best 
as your means and circumstances will warrant—You should in all 
cases as far as it can be done use the thoroughbred male. There 
should be owned in every county one or more thoroughbred 
stallions, good ones, and it would be well if all the mares in the 
county or vicinity could be bred to them. In speaking of thorough¬ 
bred stallions in this connection, I use the word thoroughbred in 
its broadest sense as applied to horses. If individual farmers 
have not the means sufficient, or have not the enterprise to buy 
suitable stallions, let two or more unite and make the purchase, 
or if necessary form joint stock companies and buy them—buy 
them in some way, and you will never regret it. 
Those counties or neighborhoods which organize in this way, 
and use largely the stallion so obtained, will at the end of four to 
six years draw into their vicinity horse buyers from all parts of 
the state, and from other states, who will pay them from fifty 
dollars to one hundred dollars, and in some cases much more, 
above present prices, for all the horses they are willing to spare. 
Those counties or neighborhoods, who neglect to do this, will in 
time find it difficult to sell even at present prices, and finally as 
the improved horse stock increases throughout the state, the poor 
horse stock will decrease in value and readiness of sale. I state 
these facts, and they are facts beyond a question, in regard to the 
horse, and the principle holds good equally in breeding all other 
farm stock. 
Cattle are more easily and safely bred than horses ; are subject 
to fewer diseases, and much less liable to accidents ; are of more 
ready sale, and are, therefore, a much better stock for farmers 
generally to breed as a specialty. The short-horn, in my judg¬ 
ment is the best and most profitable of the cattle kind for the 
farmer, all things considered. There is no question about the 
pre-eminence of the short-horn for beef purposes. As milkers, 
when that quality is desired, and a proper effort made in that di¬ 
rection, they are quite equal to any other class of cattle in their 
yield of butter and cheese, and for milk dairy purposes they sur¬ 
pass all others. 
