IMPROVERS OF DAIRY STOCK.

Western Star, Issue 346, 24 April 1880, Page 7 (Supplement)

IMPROVERS OF DAIRY STOCK.

The.manwbo makes a. specialty of any business, as, a,rule, produces a superior articles - This is notably true in the rearing of thoroughbred stock. Men who de-

;>ote their lives and fortunes to propaga- ‘ ting a pure, race of cattle, pigs, sheep,' orany other farm stock j keep the blood pure, ; and fear animals which may be relied on ; 4b transmit 'the qualities .most desired to their offspring. Men : engaged in Ordinary, mixed farming cannot dp this. They lack either the knowledge, time, or opportunities, and sometimes all of these re-; quisites to success. It will generally pay them twofold to purchase them from wellknown breeders, or hire the services of such stock if they are not in a condition to buy. Never keep half breeds and scrub males to; breed from. The best heifers, the off.; spring of a thoroughbred Shorthorn or; other breed as cattle, should be kept as mothers, but the sire be of pure, blood every time. Make this a cast-iron rule, if possible to do so, in the raising of: every species of farm stock. , It is tully as: important to carry this principle into the ' poultry yard, in proportion to the value; of stock, as to adhere to it in the breeding horses, or any other large stock. Never breed from mongrels On the male side if; it can be at all avoided. 1 Farmers will never be able to separate themselves from; “ hard times,” till this fact arid similar truths are learned anff acted upon.,, ,Why should any farmer ebrisurae time and food in producing 500 dols,. worth of .stock when, by a wise system ot thoroughbred males, he could produce//.IOQQ dols. from the same expenditure,. Ajnd yet nineteen but of twenty are doing this tery, thing. rr* American Paper. ( t•