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Show PURE-BRED CATTLE ARE BEST To Be Successful Little Details Must Not Be Overlooked Keep Up k Records of Animals, A well-selected breed of pure-bred cattle is a source of much pleasure as well as profit, but to be successful details de-tails must not be overlooked. Many, breeders and beginners are too careless. care-less. They keep no accurate records of births, neglect their cattle, fail to keep up the records, do not take proper prop-er care of their cattle in winter, and are often caught with a lot of surplus and unmerchantable bulls on hand and no buyers. Let me add that the only way to dispose of surplus stock is by judicious advertising in some good farm and stock xpaper, says a writer in an exchange. Keep your herd in nice, healthy condition, con-dition, so you will not be ashamed to show your stock to prospective buyers. Make a yearly exhibit at a few leading state and county fairs and present your stock In the most attractive form at home, as well as at the fairs. In describing de-scribing your sale stock to prospective A Pure-Bred Hereeford. buyers by mail or otherwihe, never overestimate the merits of an animal. Make good every statement, and make every buyer a friend. It is cheaper to retain your old customers than to hunt new ones. There is no better way to restore or keep up the fertility of your soil than by keeping a herd of beef cattle, saving sav-ing and applying the manure. A liberal lib-eral supply of both grain and rough feed should be grown and consumed by the cattle. They should be kept well-bedded in the barns and all straw-stacks straw-stacks converted into manure and returned re-turned to the soil. A well-bred animal will not consume as much food as a scrub, and will always sell at a profit, even if sent to the butcher. The best individuals will bring a fair profit to the owner when sold for breeding purposes. |