Show L I 1 f m om bmw ry af JOAO 3 I 1 wy PUREBRED PURE BRED STOCK FOR EVERY FARM purebred pure bred live stock on every farm will borne day be the rule in the united states it will come through the use of registered sires then the addition of registered females fen and finally by the weeding out of pedigreed baruta the pedigree la Is an index of quality for like begets like or the likeness ot of an ancestor but pedigree Is 13 not absolute proof of exceptional quality not in tho the united states it says F farm arm and breeder it can bo be made so in time and breeders bleeders bre eders are urged to bring that day to pass by culling every animal cleow individual characters and tile tho chances tt passing them on to its offspring do not match up with its royal lineage in the past there has hais been great reliance on the herd book animals have been sold for reproductive purposes because they carried the blood of popular sires and dams many of them should have been sent to the block it la Is bad enough that less than 10 per cent of the live stock in the united states Is pure bred it la Is worse lor for tho the breeding industry that shortsighted men see only the dime in front of their noso nose and not the dollar a few yenes off in E europe trope the culling of animals for breeding purposes Is much more rigorous than in our own land over there pedigrees pedigreed grees carry a guarantee of individual excellence because it line has been tho the custom among breeders bleeders bre eders to register only outstanding animals what we will come to in america A pedigree should stand not only tor for the presumption of inherited characters and it should also represent high quality in the individual some day purebred pure bred live stock on every farm will indicate high class farming in fact as well as in theory |