Show BUSINESS OF RAISING PUREBRED STOCK raising purebred cattle cattie is Is not a business that can be engaged in one year and closed out the next asserted frank D tollison To inson editor of the shorthorn in america in an address before the lie kansas improved stock breeders bleeders Bre eders association nt at the agricultural college farm and home week the business of raisin raising purebred stock said mr air tomson requires a steady continuous persistent application of thought and purpose and for this reason the farmers in the british isles have attained a degree of success that we have scarcely reached in this country the making of a pedigree means an intelligent selection and mating of types this involves some knowledge of tile th e preceding ancestry for instance one would hardly expect a breeder to produce cattle that would reproduce accurately if he used ft a small fine boned smoothly finished sire for one cross and then followed it by an oversized sire of uneven conformation and heavy bone and continued tills this plan the offspring would lack uniformity and could not be relied upon to reproduce type tile the correct method would be for the breeder to form in his mind the conformation the type that lie he wished to perpetuate and then select his sires sire s as nearly of tills this type as possible having slaving done this the pedigree would be strengthened with each cross andi and the offspring would much more certainly reproduce the type desired let us suppose that a breeder has followed this plan and then through lack of judgment or for some unaccountable counti ible reason permitted the use ot of a sire widely widdy di differing frering from his es type in so doing he has hai destroyed the results of now let us suppose that an interior inferior sire representing indifferent In blood lines Is placed in service we can scarcely estimate the damage resulting basis for breeding nothing that one can do as ft a cattle breeder will strengthen his position tion at the market so much as to furnish steers that are arc purebred or tit at least that have four or five purebred pure brek i tops so lot let the improved animal the registered animal be the basis for the breeding operations this Is vastly more important no now than in the early days when the improved animal did not appear at the market in considerable numbers competition is keen today in this field and the man who ho attempts to make a success of raising inferior cattle on the assumption that they are profitable will find himself severely handicapped because cattle of tile the improved type go to market jn in large larg e numbers and are given the preference by the buyers 41 t 1 A 1 X e e wr rt I 1 Y t R W 1 2 FIN BRITISH KNIGHT ill VIGOROUS TYPE OF SHORTHORN |