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Farmers and breeders should pay particular attention to this point, 

 as week after week I sell horses that are in no fit condition to come to 

 market, and afterwards sell the same horses for $40.00 to $50.00 per 

 head mor^, when they have been fed here about thirty or forty days. 



Put your horses up. Feed them well for at least a month before 

 you expect to sell them, and shippers will be only too glad to pay you 

 several times over for your trouble in doing this. 



See that your foals get plenty of care in their yearling form, and 

 they will show you afterwards that you are well repaid for all your 

 extra feed and trouble during that time. 



BABY BEEF. 



(Hon. .Joseph E. Wing, Mechaniesburg, Ohio.) 



It is really an interesting thing — this feeding of the babies on ihe 

 farm. When I was a boy we used to let the babies grow up before we 

 ever fed them. We thought the animal had to have his life divided up 

 into two parts — in one part he got his growth and in the next part we 

 fed him. Don't you remember that ? Why, we never dreamed of having 

 to feed the babies. We never dreamed of feeding cattle until they were 

 three years old, and we thought the sheep had to be three years old, too, 

 before we fed them, and the pigs, too. We have gotten over that now. 

 The pigs in our country seldom get to be over ten months old — they go to 

 market while babies. The lambs go to market before they are one year 

 old. Almost all the sheep in the United States go to market before they 

 are one year old ; and the steers, the poor little baby steers, also have to 

 lose their happy lives while young. 



In the corn belt, where land is worth $100 an acre, men who keep 

 cattle are almost compelled to keep the kind that pay to milk, so you can 

 save the milk and make it into butter and cheese. I believe you have 

 always got to do it, and then when you begin to decide what kind of cows 

 you will keep you turn it over in your mind and decide that you want the 

 cow that will not only give plenty of milk, but whose calf will grow into 

 a good beef animal. By the way, do you know what made one of my 

 shoulders lower than the other ? It was carrying buckets of milk on that 

 arm that came from an old Shorthorn cow. The trouble was my father 

 was so kind-hearted he would never allow me to carry but one bucket at 

 a time. If he had let me carry two buckets at the same time, why, I 

 would not have been so lop-sided ; and that very fact has caused me to 

 have a serious leaning toward the dual purpose cow. I have taken care 

 of those cows and know their whole history. 



