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Show Use Bute Bred Sires, Tho hundreds of farmers ln Utah who seem to think that any scrub sire Is rood enough, should ponder well over the following fiom Prof I I! Llnfleld of the Utah Agricultural college. Judging from the practices, many farmers seem to think thnt a half-bicd male la as 'good for Improving their stock as n. pure-bred This la not the ease, fnr several reasons When we binr ln mind the facts mentioned nbove, tint the male represents half tb herd, to use nn) thing else titan the t pure-bred nnlmal ptncuiable ettns much slower Improvement To s a half-bred male shows that tho user has some fnllh In pure-bred blood, but his method of using It would tend to destroy what little faith he had, systematic and rapid Improvement Is not possible from this method of breeding breed-ing Wo call the offspring of 11 pure-lued pure-lued male and n cominon-hred female a Inlf-bicd, 01 n giade, because wo are working up toward a pure. hied stand-aid stand-aid If wo crn,s tho limb- offspring again and the next generation yet again with the pure-bred, we have three-fourths or seven-elghths-hrod nnlmils, or what are called high-grades high-grades The terms Is similar to that wo use In speaking nf a hill -tho grade nf tho land If, now, wo would tnke the hnlf-bred nnlmal, If n ninle, and mite with the common stock, we get a low gtade, theoretically only one-quarter pure-br-d, going ciovvn not up hill I'rom tho practical standpoint, however, how-ever, tho results are not generally nn good ns this. An animal which Is only half pure-bred Is Impurely bred, the qualities are tainted Impalied and we have no guarantee as to what they are. Again, the force which the pure. bred teprcseuts hua been weakened II) being be-ing mixed with tho heterogeneous forces of the scrub they luivo list much nf their Impresslvenesa nnd stablllt) Like the mighty linige of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchad-nezzar, with Its held nf gold, Its lsidy of silver, its thighs of bruss, Its legs nf Iron, nnd Its feet of Iron nnd clay. It stands upon nn unstnble foundation The Irnn nnd clay may be mixed together, to-gether, but they ore not united Hav-Irg Hav-Irg nn appearance peril ips a nnmn of sttength, jet the clay Is the Una me is. uro of Its stablllt) An the stone from the mountain which, ntilklng the feet nf tho Image, destin)ed It an I scatter scat-ter 1 It to the fnur winds nf heaven, so he that builds his hopes upon tho ue of n Inlf bred sire, however grand his hopes may be is bull ling theii upon that which but Invltea their destruction de-struction The very great value pos. ncssi d by the pute-bred Is that Ita forceB nre shown, nnl inn) he depended depend-ed upon to work almost ujwit)s In nnn direction The hilf-bred nnlmul being half 11 scrub, might have Ids forces his tendencies tn Improve or engraft villi-nble villi-nble and use ful qualities so changed nn to render tho dliectlon nf thttr nc Hon unccrtnln Tho results ot breeding breed-ing such nnlir Is cannot bo depended U on with any decree of lellnnce It Is not possible for very many farmers farm-ers to start a heul of nil rure-breds, tho first cost woald he too great It Is perhaps per-haps Just as well that It Is so a 't requires considerable experience o hnndlo those hlgh-prlccd cattle with llnanclnl success. The vv'so plin for moat nf us I to stmt with a good herd nf common stock, and grade up with n pure-bi eil sire As said before, the slro is half the herd, thus the Importance of getting first a good animal ns nn Individual, but pethaps yet moio im-lortanl im-lortanl for ue on common stock, an unlmal with a good pedigree." |
