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Show P ii i W- JPli SI HOME-GROWN FEEDERS BEST SlflS I H ' WWMBw Two Home Grown Feeders. One of the chief disadvantages that most cattle feeders have to contend with is the purchase of feeders from some remote district. If it is possible to select a small bunch of good quality, qual-ity, uniform-sized feeders of about the same age in his own neighborhood they will make a more profitable lot of feeders for the average farmer to i finish than the class of feeders that come from some remote district. Many failures among feeders can be traced directly to the fact that they are not acquainted with the effects ef-fects of acclimation and domestication of the purchased feeders and fail to get them started off In good condition. condi-tion. Then again some farmers come to the conclusion that it is unprofitable to keep a herd of cows and believe that they can buy their feeders for less money than they can afford to grow them These men soon find their mistake, and many who have sold their cow herds are now develop- ing new herds for the purpose of raising their own feeders. Then again there is another matter that enters into the economy of the feeding question, and that is the matter mat-ter of eelling the cattle before they are finished. There are times when it will be more money in the feeder's pocket to 6ell the cattle when they are just off grass, even though the price seems email compared with what corn-fed cattle are selling for. Farmers who are going into the business would do well to raise a high class of feeding animals and feed only what they can handle to the most profitable advantage on their own farms, and sell when the prices are right Sell when just off grass if the price is right and grain foods are high. Feed well on a variety of well cured alfalfa, clover and corn stover and a liberal grain ration. Raise tho breeds best adapted for the one special purpose and keep in close touch with the market conditions condi-tions in relation to both feed and beef. If the cattle are to be full fed, select se-lect the full-feed period with Intelligent Intelli-gent discrimination and precaution. |