Show FARM CK I PROBLEM 1 TO SAVE YOUNG LIVE STOCK CPr Prepared par by b the e eA Unit State Department I of f A Cutting down dOWD the tho high bight and costly death rate rato amon among Infant live stock Is 18 Isono Isono ono of tho the farm problems for which tho ho farmer must apply the elf Secretary of ot Agriculture Jar Jar- Jardine Jar Jar-dino dine recently declared that less Ics les than 10 per cent of tho rho farmers problems can bo be remedied by legislation the to r re 00 per cent can best bo he solved or approached for solution through the bu business of ot farming Tho Tim prevention of the high mortality among roun young stock Is le amon among tho the latter Before birth the young animal Is In Inan Inon un an environment where It Is s fairly well protected from shock Injury and In- In In Infection It U ho has practically a uniform temperature and under normal condi condl- conditions conditions ions has lias an adequate and suitable food supply But once launched Into the world for Itself It la is surrounded with Infectious danger dan danger er Infectious or organisms changing temperature with storms wind snow hall hull rain and extreme heat the possibilities of Inadequate or Improper foods overfeeding and the presence of actual poisons of ot various sorts Borts The threat against an animal animals animal's life Is greatest at birth Breeding from good stock Is funda funda- fundamental fundamental fundamental mental But nut It Is not practical to put tut off the tho problem until all the live stock In the country Is pure bred And the tremendous losses amongst our live live- livestock livestock livestock stock Infants are due duo to a very limit limited ed extent to faulty breeding according to Dr Maurice C Hall Hail of the bureau ot of animal Industry United States De De- nt of Agriculture Whatever the objection to scrubs and similar animals of cross breeds and no breeds at all may be a lack ot of toughness Is hardly their leadIng characterIstic The highest infant mortality all other things being equal would probably be among our pure purebreds purebreds not our scrubs and mongrels Of course all other things are not equal Our pure receive better care because they are arc more valuable and they are usually tho the property of the more nt stockmen Equal Equal- Equally Equally ly Iy good care should be extended to young animals In general regardless ot of whether they ar are are pure bred The bulk of our live lIte stock today Is 18 not pure bred and the protection of ot that live stock Industry Is our business We must drop our bur attitude of ot fatalism and Indifference toward vard the deaths ot of young oung animals and challenge every death to show cause why It lt occurred We Ve will usually find the ans answer er to be misunderstanding and lack of ot proper care and sanitation |