| Show MORTALITY DUE TO NEGLECT heavy losses of live stock that might easily be prevented from authoritative reports li gov eov ern merit officials it appears that some 2 cattle die in the united states annuala annu all from disease and ex most of them from neglect from the same source it is also ascer bained that the loss of sheep from the same causes Is as great these fig fie ures only seive to ta show what a waste ful people we are one of the excuses the beet trust makes for high prices of is the enormous death rate of in ili e stock on the range and on the farm most of it due to pure pur of the herdsmen and the grazier indeed the losses by neglect and exposure featly exceed the losses by disease it would be impossible to estimate the waste aste of faint faim products after they mature in the field but it Is onor boub some ot of it ft due to scarcity of 0 labor but most of it traceable trace ablo to thrift less husbandry or in plain speech ech laziness one source of waste maste Is imperfect cultivation tor for mil lions of farmers persist in halt half cult nation of larse large areas whoa when they would make moro more by proper of 0 fewer acres then non there is immense waste in the di disregard siegard ot of ent rotation of 0 crops ahk Is ihn wrt sort 0 of r dahte aste tor for it mos moms devastation doTa station ol of soils sells that requires years of provident tillage to replace all over ovar tho the east tiro are abandon nl farms barnis that would today be gardens if 11 they had boen been given intelligent cultivation the farmer is not ill fit for ills effs vocation tion who does not increase the forti lit of his soil every lear car he cultivates it ft |
