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pastures till there is nothing on them. Blue grass is the best grass that 

 grows out of the earth for cattle; that has been my experience, at least, 

 provided you have the grass; but we ought to have forty, or eighty, or 

 100 acres of grass that lays all summer with nothing on that grass the 

 summer through, and then turn in the late fall, and in the winter and 

 in the spring when the new grass comes up through this heavy grass, 

 your stock will thrive, and you will not have to wait until the middle 

 of the summer before your stock begins to gain. 



About this labor we all put in our hogs, I don't believe in that way. 

 What we want to do is to accumulate the most dollars and cents out of 

 stock for putting so much in. If it costs us ten dollars to raise a hog^ 

 and we only get eight or nine dollars out of the hog, there is no profit 

 left to pay our taxes. Land is too high, we have got to farm 

 it different from what we used to do. Our land is so much higher. I am 

 no dairyman, and yet I think the dairy is all right in its place, but that 

 is for a younger man than me. I used to follow it, but I am getting^ 

 too old for that; I leave that for these young fellows, these young men 

 around here with fuzz on their upper lip, who are looking for a wife. 

 Now, the men who go out here and marry some of these girls who have 

 been raised right, you furnish them six cows and three dozen chickens, 

 and they will make money for any of you. If you furnish them with 

 twelve cows and six dozen chickens, you can buy 160 acres of land and 

 those girls will pay for it. 



Address by J. B. Boltox, before Mahaska County Farmers" Institute. 



If I feed at all I want a good dry place and feed snapped corn. Why? 

 Never feed them in May or June when they eat grass. If you feed them 

 straight corn they don't rum.inate that corn and your corn goes through 

 the animal. If you feed them snapped corn they will ruminate and digest 

 that corn as nature provided. I know two men who shipped two car 

 loads of cattle this year. One corn fed and the other grass fed. The 

 grass fed cattle brought the most money in Chicago. They were the 

 fattest in a sense because they were a little heavier cattle. These cattle 

 were both bunches bought and raised in this county. I have had the 

 same experience. I bought 1.54 cattle one summer and another bunch and 

 did not feed them any corn at all, and the only money I made I made on 

 the grass fed cattle, the ones I did not feed any corn. You get the price 

 too high. Then again, you buy a steer and he has eaten up your pasture, 

 you more than $7.50 a hundred. If he made you a hundred he has not 

 made you any money, he has got too much corn; your land is too high 

 and you have got to utilize what you have got and you want to utilize 

 your grain if you make a dollar. I would do as Mr. Roe did, but I 

 would feed them a little corn through the winter and I would not give 

 rhem a bite of corn in May and June. Peed them enough to be good and 

 strong. There is no money made in feeding cattle with high priced corn. 

 Hog is king. But you cannot keep a farm with one kind of stock. The 

 hog's trouble is disease, if you can get away from the disease hog is king. 

 Now you take that steer that is fed a little corn during the winter, take 



