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ready sale, and plenty of demand for them. It is the same in
this as in other breeds. If you want to breed colts, breed from
pure blooded stock. It will pay you to do it. Many farmers
think they cannot afford to pay for a colt more than five
or six dollars. If you breed from that stock and raise colts,
in nine times out of ten those bred from pure blooded stock
will be worth two of the others in my experience and obser-
vation. So in all classes of stock. There is no farmer in
this community can afford to breed from anything but pure
blooded stock on the male side. It will pay you fifty per
cent.
Mr. Huntley- I have been a good deal interested since I
have been here in hearing the discussions that have taken
place. Of course we read the short reports in the journals
of the institutes that have been held throughout the state
by Mr. Morrison. It seems to me it will pay every farmer
to keep track of these discussions. They will be reported I
presume in full, the papers will be published in full. I know
some of our journals have promised to do that. I have
learned something in the fruit line that will change my
practice in the coming year. This system of farming re-
quires the closest study and most careful practice. Farm-
ing in the old fashion has gone by. It has got to be reduced
to a science. Everything must be saved and made the most
of. We must use all the machinery that will help us to do
our work cheaper and easier without running off the bridge
the other way, and investing money we have not earned
we must use. There is a medium. Any farmer can buy
too much machinery. It is like selling a cow to buy a
patent milk pail. Still it will not pay to have it cost twice
as much because you have not got the machinery to do it
with. If there is one thing more than another that I was in-
terested in, it was the discussion on feeding.
The amount of butter from one acre of land there at
Madison was a pretty good showing even at present prices.
It seems to me that these older men who have had more
practice, got more money, ought to do as well as he with
his instructions. It is the privilege and the duty of every
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