RECENT HOLSTEIN PURCHASES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 10

RECENT HOLSTEIN PURCHASES

> ' PRICES'FAID BY-'-THE-GOVEBX- " ; .. .. M-INT. ■ Tlio .other day, says "Hoard';) Dairyman" of October 27, the senior editor of this, paper, purchased for the New ZealnnU CiovM'nmi'iiV a two-voar-old Uolstcin bull Mr 1500 dollars (.2240) and a brrtce of two-yeftr-old heifers, for 1000 dollars (.6200) each'.', 'Iheso cattle were bought of S. B. ,loi.es and Son,, of .WatiM-town, Wis. ' Another heiier for the saino shipment, 11 months old, was bought of Mr John Hetts for 500 dollars (.£100). These, the- paper continues, are long'prices, but tho , Secretary- for Agriculture for New Zcalafid. who sent nearly six .thousand dollars'to invest in'such cattle," said "buy tho best you can get." It will cost m. addition about 400 dollars U'80) apiece to pay - the expense -of- their---trans-portation aiid nn attendant to tho place of destination. This;incident brings tq mind a. remark wo once heard made by-the late Tho?. Hughfes; the noted . Guernsey breeder of Pennsylvania. Speaking, of "the men who bad succeeded 'in producing tho bef.t cattle:.ho said:''-', ' ' l nover knew. of ,a single . instance fhcre a man made any lasting.improvement : in - his' cattle who was ■ looking - fr/r- ---* chebp bull. Ho might,, it is true,'run jn'.-to a,.good, animal by accident, but , tho bulls that aro wqrth' -buying have, #3:0, ;rule, been' bred 'by men. who .for years'havo made a thorough,-conscienti-ous/study of tlieir herds." , It will bo noticed every", time that such breeders pay but- little attention to tho prico wheh .they buy a bull, if ','ney 04n'get.what..tlicy. want; . .There' aro d, good many w>l«nqr farmers etartinff out to make goori catHa" brfed(OT3 'of. thefnselves. The tiling, more t'-an anything uol!-.ft..tha.t...* ; ull cut. .the ground from .under their f-.et, will be tho sncrifc-- to : price,' when •they .enould-eacrifici prico to-quality.