INSTRUCTIVE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 463, 16 April 1890, Page 2

INSTRUCTIVE.

* Persistent effort, and; breeding up my stock, particularly the latter- is the recipe given by a now wealthy farmer who went in debt for the farm a few years ago, when the stock, buildings, fences, and soil were run down to a low point. He never used any but thoroughbred males with all kinds ■, of farm animals, and he has increased his stock product more than 100 per cent by in-ceding with a purpose to view. He says it costs no more to/raise a good animal than a poor one, and perhaps a little less. He does not regard time and expense lost, in spending three or four days in finding just such a male as he wants, and whenever he does purchase a male he gels the best fop his purpose. Whatever desirable points his females lacked he supplied in their offspring by mating them with males possessed of those points in greatest development. He is a liberal feeder, and gets abundantly rewanled'for it in advanced condition of the, animals and increased quality and quantity of manure. The latter fact has enabled him to increase his hay and grain crops in proportion to the increase made in the value of the stock products. There is every incentive ami facility at the present day for farmers to produco the best stock, and thus double the value of their produces. Thoroughbreds are comparatively low in'price, and if one cannot purchase males outright to breed tip fro n, In* can certainly secure their services Asking this gentleman how he thought those who breed scrub stock could be incited to choose the better way of breeding, he said, ‘ Let them first lie bred up themselves, and then they will adopt improved methods not before.’