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Third.— The best beef markets are near by; Chicago, Louisville, Cin- 

 cinnati, Pittsburg, Indianapolis. 



Fourth.— :Many railways render shipping easy. 



Fifth.— Better feed for making beef and milk is produced nowhere; 

 bluegrass, corn, oats, clover and— alfalfa, shall we add? 



Sixth.— The old time high grade short-horn of Indiana was profitable 

 before the dairy cross was made. * 



Seventh.— A better farmer's cow does not exist than the short-horn— 

 heifers for milk, steers for beef. 



Eighth.— A better steer than the short-horn has never been bred. 



Ninth.— High class herds are well established in the State, making 

 breeding stock easily accessible. 



Tenth.— Indiana bred prize winners have in every principal exhibition 

 of the country demonstrated that conditions here are favorable to the 

 breed. 



Eleventh.— The Indiana farmer lives near the gi'eat school of beef 

 production, and may attend the International and learn its lessons. 



Twelfth.— The short-horn breeders of the State are liberal in encour- 

 aging the local development of the breed by offering special prizes for 

 Indiana bred cattle exhibited at the State Fair. 



The business to be profitable requires an investment in courage and 

 patience as well as investment of money in cattle. The cattle must be- 

 come part of a plan of farming for a long period of years. One must 

 farm as if one expected to live forever. Farming goes on forever, and 

 our part in it must be carried on with fidelity. I was in a $5,T)00 home 

 not long ago that had been paid for by the maturing of a 15-year endow- 

 ment policy in a life insurance company. A comfortable home, but can 

 you not believe that it took courage and fidelity to a purpose to pay those 

 fifteen successive premiums out of a meager salary? An investment in 

 cattle must have the element of time provided for, if success is to come 

 -rit is the accumulated benefits that count. Beef breeds of cattle can not 

 be profitable except they have good pastui-e— and good pasture is itself 

 a matter of years— of a long period of time. 



If one asks what is the trend of the beef markets today— asks what 

 is the outstanding point in the situation— the answer comes clearly, un- 

 mistakably—the demand for the ripe yearling— and he ought to be profit- 

 able, for a penny saved is two pence earned and the steer that does not 

 go to the market until, two or three years old often has pounds laid on 

 and then lost. When these pounds are laid on for the second time each 

 pound represents the cost of making two povmds. There is then a prac- 

 tical argument in favor of the ripe yearling pushed from birth to block. 

 Can any animal sell anywhere for six or seven cents, unless he carries 

 the blood of some pure breed? Assuredly not. Can the farmer— should 

 he— raise the calves which later he markets for beef, or would he better 

 allow the man on the ranch to raise the calves, while he feeds and finishes 

 them for market? 



