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Show ' MANAGEMENT OF LIVESTOCK. ,v 4. At this season of the year there arc many farmers who feel that now that the crops arc about all harvested and the fall work is about over, that the t next few months may ibe spent in idleness. idle-ness. There arc many farmers in this :- section who spend! 8 or 9 months in la , exhaustive labor for long hours each - . day, but when the winter season , comes' on feel that they arc entitled to a rest and the winter months arc spent in idleness, dissipating the ac-I ac-I " cumulations of the earning season. ' To tlicsc wc desire to call attention J to the opportunities offered in feed ing livestock. In doing this wc recognize recog-nize the fact that fully one-third of the amateurs in this business carry on such transactions at a loss. These losses arc the result of inexperienced men buying at too high a rate; they arc further to be charged to unsuccessful unsuc-cessful feeding methods. Wc know of many men who after a year's experience ex-perience find that their feed has been a total loss and! they have nothing to compensate them for their labor. Wc call attention to these failures so that the unexperienced will not rush into an enterprise of this kind without due deliberation. However, there is money mon-ey to be made in buying hogs, lambs or beef steers if handled properly and fed with the right combinations. Our Experiment Station has con-, con-, ducted tests for several years on the feeding value of our fodders, grains ' roots and beet pulp, and the man who QOntcmplatcs feeding livestock, can ,. 'find in the work of the station some very helpful suggestions. We think there are opportunities for some cf i 'Qiir active young farmers along the WZ linc$ hirtt suggested that might prove floctremely profltnble. |