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Show IT-a Trifle la raraa fttce-k. At ciLvc.t.Lu cf M-tLis-tn. farcers, the 4...ci!.-iou oa o:.e of the p-i;.er turned on the profit ia farm ftock. A pirt of the di.-1'Uaaion follow: ; Mr. I'hclps: I wish to d aw out dl-cus-lon of the pn :lon of pronu I claim that five dollirx' worth of feti a )car. ovr and a.iove the ordinary .-are or ord n.iry feel thf.t an ar.lmal has. will return double I:i some of the bad raes that I tncrtioncd. If they had had even Ave d i!)..is' worth more feed than they did, instead of brinsln afteea dollar apiece. tLe animals would have brought thirty dollar. i Now I ask any farm- r if it pays to Just keep the animal alive? The only i way I can make It pay is to have it , progress riRht from the tart until It I 1 disposed of. I go out among the I farmers of the town of Avon, and I find hundreds that will carry their cat-j cat-j tlo throuch the w inter and then F-'t ! 115 or KO api??e for them. Their cat-! cat-! tie are well enouph bred to make beef I without any trouble if they will only I give them the feed, but they expect to I sell all their grain and keen the anl- rials on the straw stack; or they feed j (train and then water them through a half-chopped hole in the ice and leave them out shivering in the winter wind for hours at a time, and then wonder 1 at getting no profUs. It is the poorent I kind of policy to sell off all your grain i and starve your cattle. I am an advocate advo-cate of thoroughbred cattle, but I : would not ell to a. man who I thought would not take good care of an animal. I Mr. Van Hoosen: If It pays to keep J cattle at all. It pays to keep them well, j I taw once an account of a man that I tried an experiment with two pifts, Just j of a size and age. He fed one pig Just Ieuough to keep It alive. In goxid squealing squeal-ing order; the other he fed Jtiat one , pound more a day. It was wonderful to see how It grew. So you see. It Is i the last pound that does the good. It j take Just so nr.uch to sustain nature, i after that the food goes to flesh and growth. Now I think it becomes all of us farmers to keep fewer animals and keep them better. ; Mr. Graham: Feeding animals to , make them grow pays, but to merely keep them alive has no profit in it. . A ton of hay worth $12 will Jus-t keep a I-year-old alive through the winter without Increasing his weight, and unless the market haa raised so that our animal is worth more per pound we are out of pocket Just 112 and our trouble. I have found that any ar'mal that is kept on barf ly enouch to sustain sus-tain life becomes stunted, the growth Is storpl. as one man said about his takes more food to start them growing Kain. A poorly fed animal does not jrow well shaped, lie Is raw-boned, i big-head- d. sharp-nosed. Add a T-w i more bushels to the ration and it will cake the profit. I can Just keep an animal alive this winter at the ca-t of summer pasture. Add three cents pr day of grain and you add from five to fifteen cents per day value. Mr. Beaker: I can not starve an animal ani-mal fa It takes a certain amount to keep up animal heat; what is added to this is the first profit. If the animal ani-mal will eat tea quarts of meal a day extra it is so much profit. I have raised much sttx k and the n-arer thoroughbred thor-oughbred I have them the more profit I find. A bu.-hel of grain fed I consider con-sider e,ual to one dollar in the value of the animal. My experience support this. I prefer ground feed. Hherp llama. A western sheep man has arranged to secure the screenings from local mills at Sioux City to be u.-ed in feeding feed-ing 10.00U sheep this winter which will be brought to Sioux City and fed In the yards there. A Cerro Gordo County (Ia.,) correspondent corres-pondent writes that sheep are on tae increase In his part of the country, that a small flock Is to be seen in every farm yard. A good many lambs are dying of worms. During the last two weeks ia Au-guest Au-guest the receipts of sheep at the Chicago Chi-cago yards were very large. &S.uoO and So.uvO being the recofd for the two weeks mentioned. Feeders sold rather better than mutton sheep. To make our sheep as Ideal as possible, possi-ble, it Is necesiry that, in conjunction conjunc-tion with the close study of breed Quality, we must adhere to our meaning mean-ing of breed type. It is not only necessary ne-cessary to select a certain breed because be-cause It has a reputation for some desirable de-sirable characteristic, but we must see to it that the breed type is clearly showu. When the sheep shows the type of the breed which it represent, then It la the best guarantee for prepotency pre-potency In breeding. This is a characteristic char-acteristic of our Ideal sheep. Hon. John Dryden: There Is do doubt that the block ia the final test of the skill that we as breeders aire trying to eiercise in carrying on our business. We sometimes talk about the butcher's standpoint and breede r standpoint, but I think the breeder and butcher ought to come together. We breeders are trying to capture the trade of the best consumer, or the consumer that will give us the most money fov our goods; that Is the Idea. Tou cannoa very well Bnd out what tie standard required Is unless you e the animal upon the block. |