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every time. The breed one handles is just a matter of taste. 

 I always try to handle the kind of animals that "look good" to 

 me and such as I think will give me a little satisfaction and 

 pleasure every time I see them eating their feed. I sell about 

 three old sows each year and keep an equal number of my 

 choicest gilts for breeding. In this way I keep a thrifty bunch 

 of sows. • • . 



Putting money in both banks, the one in town and the one on the farm — the soil. 



We have been keeping about 100 good Shropshire ewes 

 from which we expect to raise about 100 early lambs each year. 

 About fifteen or twenty of the best ewe lambs are kept for 

 breeding and the same number of older ewes sold. In this way 

 we never have any old sheep to sell as culls. This year stomach 

 worms bothered my sheep so much that I sold the entire flock 

 and bought 125 good young Utah ewes which I expect to use 

 two years, then replace them with a fresh bunch. 



Our horse stock is composed of some good, heavy draft 

 mares which do the slow, heavy work, such as plowing with the 

 gang plow and pulling the manure spreader. These mares are 

 bred regularly and their mules help to make a start on a bunch 

 of colts each year. When these mares are a good age I sell them 

 and have some more fillies growing to take their places. These 

 filly colts are bought with and run with the mules. They act as 

 a kind of chaperon. Much of my time is spent in the saddle, 

 so I have two good mares of the Denmark breed which keep 

 me well supplied with saddle stock. I break and train these 

 saddle horses and always have a buyer when I get ready to sell 



