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Show Cittle Grown at a 1'roflt. The best beef has usually sold at a profit through all the seasons of depression. de-pression. The exception may be accounted ac-counted for in the improper methods of foeding, and neglect to Improve the best time for marketing. Every general gen-eral farmer should grow good grade cattle every animal the progenv of a good pure-bred sire of any recognized beef breed, and tho dura should be of the best type of cows, herself the get of a choice sire with as much good blood back of him as is obtainable. The cows should be trained to milk well; and if their capacity after a full test when three years old, does not reach an average of four gallons per day during at least 250 days in the year, greater effort should bo made to breed them so that thoir progeny will be more surely in tho milking strains. Half of such cow's milk should go to the calf until six months old, the balance bal-ance to good use for butter or cheese, and the dross to the pigs. A three-year-old cow whoso average milk production pro-duction is loss than throe gallons daily for two-thirds of a year has no profitable profita-ble place on the average farm. , There is a right principle to follow in the successful production of beef and butter. The above outline applies to tho general farmer who lives five miles or more from a village of 1,000 or more population or a railway station his farm land being worth $30 to $100 per acre. The special dairyman who sells milk In town by retail, or ships to the city wholesale trade may (?) Ignore the calf and beef question. The large farms where help is scarce and high-priced and the land worth loss than j;10 per acre, may dispense with great milkors by careful management, grazing the cows principally, and the steers after twelve months old. putting the latter on the markets at thirty months of age instead of twenty months. But the prosperous cattleman cattle-man must be a business man one of natural ability; and the more he knows of tho world of business tho better chance for profit from hi3 calling. Orange Judd Farmer. |