POTENCY OF IMPROVED BLOOD.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 71, 19 December 1911, Page 4

POTENCY OF IMPROVED BLOOD.

THE FAITH THAT TELLS. The improving eff :c s of good blood in any kind of live stock are as sure as day, says the "Breeders' Gazette." Young animals of superior character in the community mark the location of every sire of unusual merit. Wherever there are many wellbred sires, and possibly some herds of equally excellent females, the number of high-class young stock is certain to be correspondingly large. So true is this that one can judge accurately of the progressiveness of any community or of any stockman by noting the character of stock in the fields.

Although the fact that blood will tell is closely demonstrated on thousands of farms, the lesson is not quickly learned by the majority of farmers, Location, climate, feeds, accidents and many other influences are blamed by unsuccessful stockmen for the mediocrity of their stock; when in reality the trouble is more often with the ancestry. A few men waste good blood by giving it poor care, but for every one that does so there are a hundred who waste good care on stock of inferior breeding. A lifetime spent breeding animals from inferior stock will not gain one small fraction of the success that attends a few years of work built on the best foundation stock.

Only a few men stand at the top in animal breeding. All of them got there the same way — by faith that blood will tell.