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Show MORTALITY DUE TO NEGLECT. Heavy Losses of Live 8tock That Might Easily Be Prevented. From authoritative reports by government gov-ernment offlclala.it appears that some 2,687,021 cattle die In the United States annually from disease and exposure ex-posure most of them from neglect. From the same source It la also ascertained ascer-tained that the loss of sheep from the same causes la as great. These figures fig-ures only serve to show what a wasteful waste-ful people we are. Ono of the excuses the beet trust makes for high prices of provisions la the enormous death inte of live stock on the range and on the farm, most of It due to pure trlfllngness of the herdsmen and the grazier. Indeed, the losses by neglect and exposure greatly exceed the losses by disease. It would be impossible to estimate the waste of farm products aMcr they mature In tho field; but It Is enormous, enor-mous, eomo of It due to scarcity of labor, but most of It traceable to thriftless thrift-less husbandry, or, In plain speech, downright laziness. Ono source of wast'o Is imperfect cultivation, for millions mil-lions of Armors persist in halt cultivation culti-vation o? large areas when they would make moro by proper tillage of fewer acres. Then there is Immense waste In the disregard of Intelligent rotation of crops. Tills is tho worst sort of waste, for It means devastation of soils that requires years of provident tillage to rcr.lace. All over tho east are abandoned farms that would today to-day be gardens If they hnd been given intelligent cultivation. Tho farmer Is not fit for his vocation who does not Increase the fertility of his soli every year he cultivates It. |