Show HIGH PRICED FEED NEEDED FOR STOCK satisfactory factory returns cannot be expected from fattening inferior animals along with the high prices farmers are now realizing for their live stock comes the high priced feed necessary to make the stock ready for market the greater cost of maintenance of breeding animals and the fattening of market animals must be followed by a satisfactory return on the ahe market C ise else the breeder and feeder must cease to produce and feed returns that completely overbalance the cost of ef production in fattening are not to be had form interior inferior animals no manufacturer would attempt to make an inferior low grade product from high priced raw materials in this time of expensive labor and working equipment regardless of this fact the farmer who in truth Is one of the worlds grec greatest manufacturers sometimes overlooks this particular point and feeds scrub animals on high priced feed this kind of practice is bradu ally eliminating a certain type of live stock farmer thus giving the better class of breeders bleeders bre eders and feeders an opportunity port unity for greater returns from the better class of live stock they produce in spite of the outstanding advantages to be observed in the production of live stock of well established classes and types there are on the market today more misfits and inferior grades than animals of superior market quail ficat fleat lons ions and it is impossible to estimate the loss to the producer due to this condition the parent stock used on farms Is responsible tor for this state of affairs the need of the markets can be met only by a general improvement within the herds and flocks on general live stock farms this improvement may be brought about a according ec to S T simpson of the university of missouri college of agriculture by the use of the purebred sire and the careful culling of 0 breeding herds and flocks ample proof of the efficiency of these methods may be had by close observation 0 of f practices followed by the most pro greslie gress gres lve and financially successful live stock men |