POTENCY OF IMPROVED BLOOD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1305, 7 December 1911, Page 8

POTENCY OF IMPROVED BLOOD.

THE FAITIt TH AT TELLS. The improving effects of good blood in ftii.v kind 0)' live slock are as sure as day, says Ihe "Breeders' Gazette." Young animals of superior character in the community mark the location of every sire of unusual merit. Wherever there are many, well-bred sires, and possibly some herds of equally excellent females, the number of high-class young stock is certain to be correspondingly large. So true is this that 0110 can judgo accurately of the progressiveness of cny c-m----munity 01- of any stockman liy noting the character 01 stock in the fields.

Although the fact that blood will tell is clearly demonstrated on thousands of farms, the lesson is not quickly le<med by the majority of farmers. • location, climate, feeds, accidents, and many other influences aro blamed by unsuccessful stockmen for tho mediocrity of their stock, when in reality tho trouble is more often with the ancestry. A few men waste good blood by giving it poor .care, but for every one that does -so there are a hundred who waste good care 011 stock of inferior breeding." A lifetime spent breeding animals from inferior stock will not gain one small fraction of the success that attends a few years of work built on the best foundation stock.

Only a few men stand at tlio top in animal breeding. All of them got there the same way—by faith that bl" r .d «ill tell.