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advises his son or teiiaiits to feed eattle for profit he must remember that 

 conditions have greatly changed since he made money in the business 

 and the method that was practical and profitable years ago will not do 

 today. When the average feeder, as is the fact today, must borrow 

 money to buy his cattle and is struggling to pay for a farm and get out 



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of debt, the question of profit is one that greatly interests him ; and when 

 I speak of profit I don't mean that profit that we sometimes think we 

 get Avhen we top the market with a load or two of cattle, but that profit 

 in dollars and cents that we greatly need in business. There is no feeder 

 ^vho is quite smart enough to know when to feed cattle and when to stay 



