FARMING FOR SUCCESS. §3 



The grain being sold direct gives us a cash crop, or one quickly 

 returned through pigs and the manure saved to the farm if so fed. 

 If sold a large cash return is made to the acre, and yet more cattle 

 kept per acre by using cotton seed meal. If 60 bushels of meal is 

 sold per acre it will require the feeding of but 750 lbs. of cotton 

 seed meal to replace the manure of 3,3G0 lbs. of corn sold; but 

 little more than half as much to replace 30 bushels of wheat or 

 barle}', and 300 lbs. of cotton seed meal will furnish as much nitro- 

 gen and nearl}' as much phosphoric acid as 100 bushels of potatoes 

 would if fed, but not quite as much potash. These are good crops 

 to sell, oats and hay seldom are. 



The Animal to Feed. 



Cheap beef, cheap manure ; as well as cheap manure, cheap crops. 

 I have laid so much stress upon purchased foods for manure, fed in 

 proper proportions that I beg to be allowed to name some of the 

 conditions under which it must be consumed. I believe in large 

 breeds against small breeds, because large animals expose less sur- 

 face for heat radiation in proportion to weight than small ones. 

 Large breeds require less food to make a pound of growth than 

 small. (Although I have experimented some, I express this as an 

 opinion.) Objection is made that pastures will' not admit of large 

 animals. The time has come to Spring and Fall feed grain in part. 

 Such a policy will improve the pastures and cheapen growth. The 

 animal fed must have large capacitv for consumption, digestion 

 and assimilation. Successful feeding cannot be carried on with a 

 low t3'pe animal an}' more than successful cotton manufacturing can 

 be caiTied on with old machinery' in use thirt}^ 3'ears ago. I find a 

 steer weighing 1000 lbs. will consume 17 to 20 lbs. of ha}' a da}' 

 and neither gain nor lose. All that is eaten above this amount goes 

 to growth. Other things being equal the steer that eats 7 lbs. more 

 than this amount is a very much more economical feeder than one 

 that eats but 5 lbs. more. Again, a certain class of stock may eat 

 this food because palatable and yet have a capacity for digestion and 

 assimilation so low as to make poor use of it. Indeed they may, for 

 maintenance fodder, require more than a well-fed steer. It is a 

 familiar fact that a class of cows eating a given amount of food 

 will not make one-half of the milk that another class will on the same 

 food. So familiar is this fact that I need not illustrate it from an 

 accumulation of statistics of our stable. For cheap beef or pork, 



