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Show One Way of Doing It. A man who is willing to listen to tho truth and to acknowledge the superiority superi-ority of one horse over another is not hard to convince that it pays to raise better horses. The trouble connected with getting breeders out of tbe old ruts in breeding is generally found in the fact that they will not listen to argument. A word on tho. topic of improvement will bring the idea to them at once that the man introducing such a thought has an axe to grind or something in his own interest to propose. pro-pose. Probably the best argument with men who aro unwilling to heed anything any-thing else is to give them a few object lessons. This can be done by raising horses that will soil for two or three times as much money as scrubs. Nothing Noth-ing will open a man's eyes so quick a-", to touch his poeketbook. . This would not be touching the pocketbooks of tho breeders of inferior horses, but it would bo letting them so severely alone that it would certainly bo effective effec-tive National Stockman. |