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Show HIT highest market price Easier Done With Grain Crops Than With Livestock Animals Must Go When They Are Ready. It Is much easier, generally speaking, speak-ing, to hit the highest market price with grain crops than it is with livestock. live-stock. There are various powerful interests that aim at certain seasons of the year to depreciate the prices of meat products and grain. Tha grain farmer is less at their mercy-than mercy-than the stock farmer, because he can, as a rule, hold his grain for a few months until the market suits him. The stockman cannot do this with his cattle, sheep and swine to anything like the same extent. Cattle, Cat-tle, sheep and swine must go when they are ready for market. It is the best thing a farmer can do to sell when they are read, that is, when they have reached a weight at which he cannot add .more weight at a profit. The on;y advice that it is safe to give on this point isto avoid being a market chaser, and to sell fattened stock when it is fit to ship. There is a larse. exnense connected with holding fat stock and in many instances in-stances the market goes the wrong way. Every farmer knows that with corn at, say 50 cents, he ia assuming the role of a speculator by holding a bunch for a higher market, Rfter most of the food of support an the food of gain becomes a diminishing quantity, quan-tity, diminished to such an extent that he cannot make a profitable increase on his stock. |