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Show BREEDING UP IS CHEAPEST. The Way to Get Into the Business of Raising Pure Breds. Tho, fanner that Intends to secure a hold of pure-bred cattlo will find It cheaper to breed up than to buy puro-bred puro-bred stock, especially if ho Is preparing prepar-ing to ralso cattlo for tho purposo of making, beef. If ho buys nil puro-brod stock, tho Investment will bo so heavy ' thnt lio ennnot afford to sell tho progeny pro-geny for tho block, but will feel constrained con-strained to go Into tho business of rnlslug breeding cattlo, for which ho may not havo tasto and adaptability. Good females of pure-bred beef stock bring high prices and ho would need a considerable number of puro bred cowb to mnko a good start. Hut with a bull ho can In a fow years hnvo a herd of cows that will mnko It pos-Blblo pos-Blblo to send to market hlgh-grado boeveB market toppers. For tho beof-makor, beof-makor, then, this Is nbout tho only courso possible nnd It Is tho course that Is recommended by tho breeders of pure-bred stock. In selecting a hord of, cows for breeding up, says Farmers' ltovlow', n mnn should try to got 'animals In keeping with the breed of tho bull ho Intends to buy. Thus, If ho Is going to use a puro-hred Shorthorn bull, ho should pick- up cows having tho general gen-eral conformation of tho Shorthorns. Ho will find It easy to gecuro good animals ani-mals having In them consldcrnblo Shorthorn blood, though theso animals would have bo regarded, In IiIb breeding breed-ing operations, ns without nny puro blood, simply beeatiBo tho buyer would not generally knowMunv much Shorthorn Short-horn blood such animals contained. Tho samo Is true In tho uso of pure bred bulls of any breed. If n man buys a Hereford bull he should hunt up cows' huvlng some of tho goneral confornmtiqiv. of' Hert'for'ds - and uso theso for-.-Ma breeding operations. If such nnma!s cannot bo secured In his own;, vicinity ho can generally llnd thorn at tho bg stock markets nnd got 'thorn nt' moat prices. Tho breedlng'Up process offers ' many advantages ad-vantages that tho othor- process does not offer. |
