l62 MISSniTRT ACRTCULTURAL RRPORT. 



LIBERAL AND JUDICIOUS FEEDING. 



In the third subdivision I would advocate the more liberal and judi- 

 cious use of feed. After you have carefully selected your matrons for 

 the foundation of your herd, and still more carefully selected your sire, 

 you will cross on. You should be next thinking of what kind of feed 

 to cross the calf on. 



And on the improvement Vv'e make by breeding- we can only carry 

 out by feeding. We have all received the letters of inquiry that con- 

 tained the warning injunction before closing — "I don't want a pampered 

 calf." And we have all had the same fellow come, and sold him the 

 only fat one we had. But we have not all learned the lesson that we 

 should in doing that. We may have spasmodically neglected to start the 

 others sooner. 



As an illustration of that I can recall a prospective buyer who, at 

 my directions, within the last year, visited nine herds of Shorthorn cattle 

 and only bought thirty-two bulls ; whereas, in four herds of another breed 

 he purchased sixty-eigkt, when his order was for sixty Shorthorns and 

 forty of another breed. He claimed they were not in any sale condi- 

 tion. I may be wrong in this statement I am about to make, but it is 

 the result of my observations in the Shorthorn business : That there is 

 no need to select the seed from which to breed without you feed. 



HARM DONE BY UNDERFEEDING. 



And I am of the opinion that there has been many limes more 

 harm resulted from underfeeding than from overfeeding. While the 

 loss would aj^pear to possibly not probably one in twenty-five from the 

 latter, we suffer a loss from twenty out of twenty-five in the former. 



How does a buyer know an animal will ever get in good condition 

 if you don't have him that way? 



I'^ourth — I would advocate the use of the knife more in raising the 

 standard of both bull and the steer market. There are two classes of 

 bulls it will pay to cut. The best you have that will make a show steer 

 (which, if a winner, will make you famous), and the worse you have to 

 keep from making you infamous. The former will bring you $i,ooo 

 in prize money if a winner at Chicago. The latter will cost you $i,ooo 

 if seen at some places. 



THE DIVISION OF PASTURES. 



Fifth — I would like to see improvement in division of pastures, 

 where many herds are kept. In many of our good herds of cattle all 



