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make your calves think you love them. I tell you babies get fat on love ; 

 I never have known a man to make a success of the business if he did not 

 love them. They have simply got to have it. 



Now, then, keep this feeding up all winter. And have them boni 

 in the fall, if possible. The flies are not so bad in the winter, and by the 

 time the flies come the calves' tails are so much longer and their hides 

 are thicker. During the summer give them some red clover and alfalfa 

 in a dark basement, and let them run out at night. Feed them every day, 

 and don't forget a single day. 



When spring comes it is a great temptation to turn them out on the 

 green grass — but you must not do it. All the cattle I ever lost died when 

 the green grass came. There is no strength in green grass. Get them 

 used to the green grass before you turn them out — let them have it in 

 this dark basement, and make them beds of it there to sleep on. Let them 

 have some of the green clover and the dry clover and alfalfa, and let them 

 run out at night and eat their grain. Keep this up until they are ready 

 for market, and by the time they are a year old they will weigh 1,150 

 pounds. Some say they cannot afford to feed them the year round on 

 grain. Is it better to let them run for three or four years and then feed 

 them all at once for market ? What does it cost to feed them ? A series 

 of forty-five experiments show that for the first year of their baby life it 

 costs $3.50; the second year, $7.10; the third year, $11.00, and the fourth 

 year, $19. Now, that is when they are fed right from the ground up; 

 and you will find it costs you more if you wait until the last to feed them. 

 Do not neglect the opportunity to feed them when babies, when a pound 

 of food makes the biggest gain. This opportunity means so much. Think 

 about it. Just give them the opportunity to satisfy that little appetite of 

 theirs — just the opportunity to lie in the sunshine on a green bed — just 

 the opportunity to hear kind words ; and those little calves will make their 

 owner rich. 



RESOLUTIO'NS. 



(Adopted at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Missouri Improved Live- 

 stock Breeders' Association.) 



I. On belialf of the visiting farmers and delegates, we wish especially to thank 

 Hon. Geo. B. Ellis, Secretary of tlie State Board of Agriculture, and V>r. K J. Waters. 

 Dean of the Agricultural College, for their untiring efforts to promote the Interests 

 of the Association and tlie devclopirn'nt and upbuiMin:? of Missouri agriculture. 



To the students and professors of the Agricultural College, the officers of the 

 University and the citizens of Columbia we extend our most hearty thanks for their 

 hospitality, their assistance and valuable Instruction. 



II. We would strongly urge upon the United States Congress the advisability and 

 necessity of enacting Into law what is known as the Adams Bill, providing for the 

 support of the Experiment Stations of each state. 



