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wheat 72 cents per bushel, cottonseed meal $30 per ton and 

 clover hay $13.50 per ton. On 2,700 lambs fed 51 days this 

 meant a saving of $1,377. This feeding was done in the open 

 lots, some very inclement weather and muddy yards. In fact, 

 it was the worst weather we have expetienced in several years' 

 feeding, all of which goes to prove the value of silage as a saving 

 of cost and as a fat producer when balanced with other feeds. 

 It also explodes the idea that silage-fed stock does not kill well. 

 As I said before, these lambs sold at the top of market and 

 higher every day they were on market. 



There is another reason why more farmers should feed 

 sheep: that is for fertilizing. They will enrich land more than 

 any other kind of stock. I will say in conclusion that it is to 

 the interest of every farmer to investigate and study the sheep- 

 feeding proposition. Missouri needs to feed more sheep. We 

 have at St. Louis one of the best and highest markets in the 

 country for good, fat sheep and this territory is not near sup- 

 plying their needs. You can depend upon a good market close 

 at home. 



THE FARMER AND THE PACKER. 



(Judge William H. Wallace, Kansas City, Mo.) 



I came to attend Farmers' Week to learn. About all I have 

 accumulated in thirty years in the practice of law is in a farm 

 in Jackson county, which I operate myself. I was raised on a 

 farm, but I feel that there is much for me to learn, and I have 

 learned during the past few days. 



Hour after hour I have listened intently to splendid ad- 

 dresses devoted to the proper methods of raising corn, wheat, 

 alfalfa, cattle, hogs, sheep and so on. All I have heard has been 

 splendid and instructive. The speeches have all related to the 

 proper methods of production. 



With your kind indulgence I desire for a few moments to 

 make a sharp digression to what I will denominate "the other 

 end of the line," namely, the selling end. The question I ask 

 is, "Does the farmer receive what he deserves when he comes to 

 sell?" Let us eliminate everything else and look at the con- 

 ditions at the various stock markets in our country and see. I 

 call your attention specifically to the great stock market at 

 Kansas City. I have been a small seller at this market for more 

 than fifteen years and, I believe, understand it fairly well. 



