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The Huron Expositor, 1921-04-08, Page 7oAt :APRIL; 8r STOMACN IN'OROER! .NO. INDIGESTION, GAS, SOURNESS. Dantvrat,'Fu s R et;iiif;loi, , - Xt is•. q,, ,'talik for breedeee tar pp, b h individually and throw their' reed 'associatiol5. The latter have • aid too much attention to speculative pri bs and not enough t the value of pfsre-,breds generally an to•the interests' of the small breede The wealthy divan who bums to d something big with ids money ha re ived more than hie share o publicity when you oonsider that th backbone of the breeding business l • the little fellow out at the crosaro who .is putting pure bred bulls' an boars on the country's farms. This little fellow is the outlet, th market, for the big breeder. If can sell his bulls he can come to us and buy cows. He is the man to be helped, but too often he gets credit. He goes his way unknown keeping the breeding business„ alive carrying the big breeders of the coun try on his shoulders and bearing the full brunt of every speculative wav that carries the price level of pure breds above the purses of his farme market. The breed associations coul do no wiser thing than to make thl small breeder their special interest At least they should set themselve firmly against methods of selling that place him at a big disadvantage Every informed man knows during the course of these periods of infla tion that they cannot last. A little more than a year ago, a friend o mine, a business man, said' to me: "Prices are going to break. It' unavoidable. Why don't you cash in your stuff at these fancy figures and buy later at half as much or less?" Because," I replied emphatically, "I expect to continue in this business. 1 take a certain nleasuri of pride in breeding from the same foundation stock generation after generation, striving to produce somWt,}oijntg better in the end than I started -with." But there were some who could not resist that high -price appeal, and who, seeing the break coming, got out from under, frequently at the ex- pense of young men who had been led to believe that those fictitious prices were real and permanent. Certain breed papers, field men and auctioneers were largely responsible for this delusion. They must have known that prices were fictitious, for they helped to make them so. (dome of these field melt and auctioneers assisted in the practice of bidding stuff up in order to entice buyers to take it at figures beyond its worth, Selling stuff before sales, then run- ning{ it through and knocking it down to the buyer at a big bid that meant nothing, has been no secret. Nor has it been a secret that boars were, -sold in some instances with an under- standing that they were partly to be paid for by service fees, that cows with calves at side sometimes went out a big figures with an agreement to buy the calves back at prices that would cut the cost of the cow radically below the figure indicated in the sales report. In the same way bred sows have sometimes brought prices to wonder at, unless you knew of the agreement to take some of their pigs at figures that would cut the price down agreeably. "There's no harm in having some- one bid this stuff up," men with hon- est intentions have told me. "No one will suffer, because it won't be knock- ed down to any real buyer, at a fictitious price." But this is not the end of the thing. It is totally misleading. It gives the young fellow on the outside a false notion of the money to be made in breeding stock, and it lifts the level of pure-bred prices above the, true market. It is speculation and, as such, is to be avoided for the in- stability it puts into the business. For twenty years I have not had an auction sale. My stuff has all gone to buyers privately. An inci- dent, occurring at a time when an attempt -was being made to exploit speculatively the Berkshires, did much to disgust me with this form of selling. I sold a number of boars to a man to go into a public sale, at round $200 each. He had them only a week, then put them through his sale at prices ranging from $800 to $2500. I was the breeder, and had put all my effort into producing these animals, yet this man made much more from my work in a week than i had made at a vastly greater outlay both as to time and investment. The deceit of the thing was disgusting. He had n way of jumping around during the bidding and yelling "Highway robbery; highway robbery!" 1 sat there watching, and once he slipped past me and whispered: "For heaven's sake don't tell 'em what I paid you." That is the sort of thing that has been going on at some sales, to a degree that has aroused public suspicion. In a lifetime devoted to' -thti pre duction of pure bred Berkshire hogs apd Shorthorn cattle I have seen much injury done by. speculation. Others breeds have perhaps suffered mors Athan these two, but all have .. pejd- ill ,some measure for periods of inflation during. which the work of constructive breeders' was discounted by get -rich -quick operators who ma nlpulated the market to fictitious heights that led to corresponding de pressions. Every such speculative cycle is an unmixed detriment to the business. It comes always at a time when he outlook is good, when the men who have dtayed with the busi- ness through bad years are about to take some merited profit from ris- ing prices. • This prospect tempts a gambling element to take hold of it And play it as a game for the money it can be made to yield. It is for a time over - advertised, overexploited and put on a wholly false basis that deludes the beginner into thinking it is a short cut to easy money. Then, when prices have been driven up to figures that buyers will no longer pay, when the business has been milked dry of profit, this gambling crowd gets out, washes' its slate clean and leaves the business on its back for the men who built it to care for and nurse back to life. The old, reliable breeders who re- fuse to take a hand in this gambling are labeled back numbers. Too hon- est to join in d, hurrah raised for the purpose of catching suckers, they are penalized by loss of business. Dur- ing,the hysteria of one of these spec- ulative periods prices come to be tak- en as the' measure of value. The breeder who refuses to fake his sales and establish "tops" and "averages" existing only on paper is pointed out by the gamblers and their tappers as a second rater. The newcomers in the business, only too anxious to believe that quick profits may he taken out of it, pass the conservative breeders by in flocks. They go over to the gambling element and pay their good money for water and hot air. When the fictitious market breaks, as sooner or later it always must, they find themselves holding stock that too often is worth only a portion of what they paid for it. The pity of it is that many of these same beginners would make high-class breeders if they were taken into the business on a basis of sound values. Occurring over and over again as. these speculative cycles do, they are a problem that breeders can no long- er afford to ignore. They penalize the honest breeder whin' they last, in the way I have shown, laying a temptation to dishonesty- on him that he is not always able to put aside. They temporarily wreck the breeding business, leaving it to the majority of breeders with whom it is a life- work to build its market up anew. They play havoc with young Hien who are enticed into paying for stock prices that have no basis in any normal market. More than that, these speculative cycles work injury to breed type and utility. My , older feeders will recall wba.'-epeeulation did to the Bates Shorthorns, as good cattle to begin with as were ever raised. It drove prices so high that they came under the control of men who had more money than cattle brains --who were not practical breeders in any sense. Their idea of breeding was to sit in the parlor and match pedigrees in- stead of studying the animals and matching cattle. They bred for pedi- gree alone, and the result was degeneration, as might have been ex- pected. Some men of wealth have come in - o the breeding business and have rought to it a love of the work that ade them assets to it. But only a w have been real breeders. Often hey have used their wealth only to obtain possession of fine animals and it them on show farms where little as afterward heard front them. That a joss, for we need every superior nimal bred. Such should be in theae ands of a constructive breeder—a an who takes a number of animals nd leaves something better from rem than he started with. Breeding this sort is discouraged by specu- tion, for with mounting prices, with nflated prices, with animals sold or ught at fictitious figures giving un- erited publicity, the tendency is to ake traders out of men who might breeders if the market rested, as always should, on a bed -rock basis high prices only for high quality. ctitious prices often encourage sell - g of pedigrees rather than indi- duals, and matching pedigrees in eeding rather than skillfully mat - g animals of high merit. My conception of a true breeder is man who has stuff he will not sell. hen he gets an animal that he inks necessary to make certain int= ovements in his stock, he will re- st the temptation of a high price d keep it. He will do this because, hile we are all in the business. for oney and a living. some of us are so in it for the satisfaction of hievement, which is •s.eeter than onetary reward. I recall an incident in the life of e late Abe Renick, in his day knowledged to be the greatest horthorn breeder in America. He was who made the famous Rose Sharons, On one occasion a ealthy gentleman- a banker, by the ay-- visited Renick and, selecting a rtain heifer, asked her price. Renick as a man of few words. and he sim- y answered: "Nut. for solo, sir." The banker made a second request a little later and got the same reply. But he was persistent and asked a third time. Renick. rather stirred by now, straightened up and declared with curt emphasis: "A national hank couldn't buy her, sir!" There was the true breeder. Down through the history of every breed names of such Hien stand nut, and th work of their lives is in our keep - in to -day in the herds and flocks nide possible by what they achieved. Thinking of the pure-hred business in this way, what a cheap lot the speculators who make a gamble of this business, with all its high tradi- tions, size up to be! One of the vital jobs for us to do is to clean house "Papers Diapepein" has proven Reale the edreet relief for Indi tion, Gaaee, Flatulence, Heartburn, urnesa, Fer- mentation or Stomach Distress, caused by acidity, A few tablets give almost inunediato stomach relief and shortly the stomach ie cosrected so you can eat favorite foods witRout fear. Large ogee costs' only few cents at drug store. Millions helped annually. "Cold in the Head" is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. 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ABERHART, sate by SEAPORTS jf.. t,'1%f;`It�1ir t 4tti`�,.;•" ey`� ;�;{+dt � 'Ldxr�,,S'��1 *,F.;... title 0.0gP 1e its, belleri tl t* geael<aI Uva o atapding, woo d -What wet r. fellowship *mon- o clesea of pure-br t b m fe t pl 18 a h a tl of la bo m m be it of Fi in vi br in W th pr an si w m al ac m th nc s it of w w ce PI eenn y, of : pent good. kipityde and good seders of all 4jt to the com- a noon end of bet$er business for all. f We have had too much exploitation e of a wrong sort,, too much jealous s !rivalry, too .much blue sky at the ex - ds pease of ground gained. I firmly be- d lieve that 99 per cent. of breeders aye honest minded, as the big major - e ity are honest in deed. Those who - he have been led astray went that way through overenthusiasm, through the 'preegitre of a speculator-manlpulated no Market and because of the flim -flaw , of the agentl-e�se above referred to who , profit byandffly running -up the breed- . er's expense. Within the breeds there has been e .. too much tendency, to exalt one fam- - ily above. another and Sot enough at - ✓ tention paid th individuality. I have d seen animals led out, good enough to s win a championship but not happen- . ing to belong to any popular family, e and breeders would remark: "Plainly bred." Often it would be un animal . with a splendid ancestry as well as being a great individual, flow could - it be plainly bred? It is contrary to' any sound 'reasoning. f It is interesting to consider what men of earlier pure-bred history would s think of prices attained in the recent wave of speculative. In 1875 I paid a Canadian breeder a sum for and Berkshire boar and two sows which, with the expense of getting them home, totaled $1800. That was re- garded as news even by the metropli- tan papers and was heralded from one end of the country to the other. But it would be little more than option money on some of the hogs sold i the past three years. However, s was a real sale with np side under- standings, while some of the latter sales were not. In six months from the date of purchase the two sows had farrowed twenty-one pigs, part of which had been sold for $1100, be- sides $1500 in stud fees from the boar. From one of thbse sows de- scepded the Grand Champion winner at the St. Louis and Chicago World fairs, as well as winning at numerous other shows. Years later, when 11 bought the Shorthorn herd of C. B. Dustin, of Illinois, upon his retirement from the business, he pointed to a certain fav- orite cow in the bunch and scuds "That's the kind to raise $1000 bulls from." The figure marked a good price for bull calves of high merit at that time. Since then hulls from that quality of stock have sold well into the thousands. But it has not been altogether for the good of the 'business. When a prize-winning bull calf sells for 110,000 it discourages the conservative beginner and offers too much stimulation to the one who has a gambling streak. There is an element of risk in an untried sire that cannot be avoided. One of proven merit may well run into such figures and even higher, but when choice bull calves sell at $1000 that is money' enough. The business is then in a healthy condition that will permit the distribution of herd sur- pluses to the country's farms. It has been a regret with , nue, as with many breeders, to see the level of prices climbing as they did during the past three years—net counting the peak prices at all. It has left breeders with a lot of bulls on their hands that the farms could not ab- sorb. Some have the mistaken no- tion that there is an overproduction of pure-bred stock, but nothing could be further from the facts. If every farmer who breeds cattle were to buy a pure-bred bull the profit from which would be certain, the supply would fall far short of the demand. Years ago I advocated spring auc- tion sales of bulls, conducted by the respective breed associations. 'But they'd sell too cheap," one breeder objected. Well, let them sell cheap. They would broaden the market for pure-bred stuff year by year and With it increase the demand. Speculation demoralized the pure- bred market, but in doing so it cheap- ened the price of good staff to a point that makes the present it great op- portunity for getting a pure-bred start. I think we are now close to a very good pure-bred hog market. Hogs are now the only stock that is paying for corn, and this will stimu- late a revival in breeding and feed- ing. And since cattle supplies have been steadily declining with falling profits to the feeder, it does not seem that we can be far from brighter days in that line too. But 1 would caution the beginner in good times or had to start with caution—never to overinvest. Buy just a few good individuals and grow in size as you grow in skill and in ability to sell. The purpose of the young breeder should be to build character into his business. Nothing else can take the place of this one essential • One deal a bit off color travel., far and may kill more sales than is ever suspected. In the same way a good reputation makes friends and breeds respect. It is not all sunshine in the breeding business, and certainly, as the present reveals, it is not a short cut to easy money. But the The time has conic to speak the truth for the sake of the great busi- ness we are in. That business has taken on too much expense. Auc- tioneers have become unreasonable in their demands. Three or four of them, sometimes more, at a sale, drawing down prices running into the hundreds and •sometinics thousand. of dollars, constitute an expense which, it seems to me, we cannot justly ask the ultimate consumer of pure-bred stock—the farmer—to bear, The field men of certain breed papers sunt up an expense just as much out of reason. They are, if anything, more autocratic than the auctioneers. if you refuse to adver- tise, they boycott you in some in- stances. They speak no good word ,.of your herd about the country. You get a write-up wit,h your advertising from some, not hosed on the quality of your stock hut on t. he amount of advertising space you buy. This. is ell wrong, for it throws the advant- age all the rich mast's way. ' I am inclined to the opinion that 1 the mire -bred business would be bet- ter elf with no breed papers at nil. Tier' are some likable men among their editorial forces and field men, RS there are among the auctioneers, and some of these men are no doubt nerformthg a real service, but we have too many papers levying an un- necessary tax on the pure-bred busi- ncss. Some have taken too auto- cratic control of its destiny and are largely responsible for the depres- sion from which it is now suffering. They helped bn the speculation that caused it. 1 know of one of these • MILLIONS IN PROFITS are being paid to the share- holders of Northern Ontario's Gold Mines. Are you getting y.nir altare ? The experience gained in fif- teen yearn of active connection with these mines will help you to participate in these splen- did profits, Complete informare,,, on Amami' HOMER L. GIBSON £ co. 703-4.5 Bank of Hamilton Bldg. TORONTO t 21 ------ this Gpven41$ i •fig! tactic*, oven ri In closing this oracle, ter re ing all the criticisms tt =Woe 'I yyd8h to leave this thought -=that he pure-bred business is fundamentally: one of the soundest businesses to *merlon to -day. It is one of the most indispensable and oMtire excel- lent opportunities- to -the yeung man who loves good stock. In the past, many of our greatest men have been breeders of pure-bred stock, -and I am sure the business erill attract men of this class. The future justifies optimism, as I see it, and premises reward to everyone Who ti,ill bring to this business the intelligence and in- dustry necessary to make it a sue- cess.—By ue-cess—By N. H. Gentry, in The Coun- try Gentleman. Pleat ape: Black'•1. or Mixed } bit ry f . 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And yet the people of Ontario voted to make prohibition the permanent laws This imported "Booze" is the stuff which enables the "Bootlegger" to carry on his illegal trade, and allows "Rum Runners" and "Whiskey Smugglers" to 'disgrace Canada. Officers of the law are set at defiance. Read what the Chairman of the Board of License Commissioners says himself. Importation Makes Law Enforcement Difficult "After an experience in the administration of the Ontario Temperance. Act covering the period from its first corning into :orce in September. 1916, I am in a position to state that importation is seriously hampering its effec- tiveness. The War Measures Act was repealed in January 1920, and the Dominion Orders -in -Council under the Act were rescinded. Heavy ship- ments of liquor into the province began at once. The number of cases of b, each of the Ontario Temperance Act have increased in even greater pro- portion."—From a Statement by the Chairman of Board of License Commis- sioners for Ontario. Shall the importation and the bringing of ;a° oxicating NO . 1'. ,noxa into "...le. o -r sir_ e {d be forbidder) ? Shall the importation and the bringing of intoxicating YES liquors into the Province be forbidden? VOTE—ancivote "YES" Mark your ballot as above with an X opposite the Yes, and nothing more. Ontario Referendum Committee r4n,gps o- Li?,,.i �,„„•scar •�4r-;