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Show Va'ue of Pure-Breds t i By John T. Ciiine in. Live Stock Specialist, Spe-cialist, Extension Service, Utah Agricultural College, Logan, Utah For centuries some ,of the sturdy men of Euroe have put their life and brains Into the improving Hf livestock. live-stock. This intelligent work, carried on often for generations by the same family, has resulted in the development develop-ment of practically all of our pure breeds of farm animals. During the last hundred years energetic Yankees have been trying to build on this wonderful won-derful foundation. The great advantage advan-tage In using pure-bredfc is that you get for a few cents the results of this untiring work of centuries. Instead In-stead of having to build up an ideal from scruhs you are privileged to pick out finished products to wortt with, thus starting your operations hundreds hun-dreds of years ahead of the man who uses mongrels. In the pure-bred, type Is strongly fixed, and so the laws of heredity make the products fairly sure, while ia the scrub all is guess work. The success following the use of pure-bred sires can be found in nearly any part of the live stock world. The steady improvement noted in western cattle Is due to the Introduction on our ranges of good sires of the English beef brands. The man who continues to use good beef bulls builds up high class herds and get a premium on the market. This Is working out so well Unit the most successful ranchers nt the west are paying as high as SGoU per h?ad in carhrad lots for range bulls. This would not be done by those profitable practice. There are a number num-ber of Utah breeders who each year got from $o.00 in $10.00 per head more for their cattle than their neighbors, and an investigation will show that ihj higher priced animals are from the herds In which pure-bred sires are used. The wonderful improvement of the horses in Utah has been due largely to the introduction ' of pure-bred stallions stal-lions from Europe. Utah is a noted horse producing section, and the records rec-ords show th:t there are more pure- , br. d stallionsi In proportion to grades j here, than in any other state iu the j Union. ! If pnre-breds were not worth while, we would not be aide to cite the fol- j lowing list of sales. These prove the value of good blood, as the purchases ; were made in most case3 by practical m- n. Flying Fox Thoroughbred $1s7,hj ; Cuyeliene Thoroughbred l.".o,oi0 ' Ormorulo Thoroughbred , 1'xl.OoO j Caruot rer-'heron 2o,oo0 , Huron Buchlyvle t'lydes lale 47,00:.' ' Americas Shorthorn 50,000 Harris Sale of Ilerefords, 14 ! average I Golden Fern's Noble, Jersey 2.0OU Bag Apple Kerndyke Sth Holstein 2-",ix; Rivals Lord rremier, Berkshire 4o,"H Masterpb n Berkshire -,."iJ : These are a few instances of the j tribute paid to good pure-bred animals ani-mals by iVvers of fine s:o--k. Intelligent use of the improved pure breds is the surest way to success in animal production. |