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Show LIVE STOCK MEANS SUCCESS No Better Place for Farmer to Market Corn and Roughage Than to Give to Animals. On nearly every farm live stock raising is merely a side line where it should be the main thing. There is no place where the farmer can market his corn and roughage so profitably as feeding it to good live stock. The market mar-ket is right at home in the feed lot, and no long hauls to town are necessary. neces-sary. If a farmer can feed his 60-cent corn to good hogs which .will pay him 80 cents for it, does he not make an advance on the price of his corn and a profit in the fertility returned to the soil, as well as a saving of expense in hauling? Breeding pore-bred live stock is a business which should be entered gradually and retired froam reluctantly. Improving the common stock a little each year will lead up to the pure-bred business. There can exist no permanent system of agriculture agri-culture without live stock and, on high-priced high-priced land, pure-bred stock is the only kind to have. |