FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI. 419 



"This country, with its wonderful natural resources, its marvelous 

 army of labor-saving agricultural machinery, the intelligence, freedom, 

 thrift and enterprise of its agricultural population, and its splendid sys- 

 tems of transportation, needs only to study the demands of consumers 

 at home and abroad and direct those elements to the production and 

 distribution of the best in abundance, in order to prosper as no nation 

 has ever done. This applies with especial emphasis to meat and draft 

 animals and meat products of all kinds. To those who study methods 

 of the highest economy and efficiency and strive to reach the highest 

 degree of excellence in live stock production will belong the greatest 

 rewards, not only in direct pecuniary profits, but also in the growing 

 fertility of their lands. Those sections lof the nation where this policy 

 has been most persistently and consistently followed are today inhabited 

 by the most wealthy, prosperous and intelligent people on earth, who 

 wield the most powerful public influence." 



THE OUTLOOK CUT NO FIGURE. 



Exchange. 



A farmer was hoeing hard on his patch of land when one of the town 

 loafers approached the fence. 



"Hullo, Farmer B. what do you think of the outlook?" 



"What outlook? Didn't know there was one." 



"We're all talking about it down at the store and they sent me up to 

 hear what you had to say." 



"Oh, yes; I see. Well, you tell 'em if they will stop talking to go 

 to hoeing that the country will prosper without any outlook. Do you 

 hear me?" 



RULES FOR MEASURING HAY. 



It is generally reckoned that a ton of newly stbred hay measures 

 five hundred cubic feet, which is practically a cube eight feet long, eight 

 feet wide and eight feet deep. Hay that has been allowed to settle for 

 some time is usually measured by allowing four hundred and twenty-two 

 feet to the ton, or a cube seven and one half feet wide and seven and 

 one half feet deep. After it has become thoroughly settled three hundred 

 and forty-three feet will make a ton, or a cube having sides of seven feet. 



It must be remembered that the figures given above are only ap- 

 proximate and that after all a good deal must be left to the judgment 

 concerning the compactness of the hay. Sometimes fuzzy clover does 

 not settle very compactly, even though it has been stored for some time, 

 in which case some allowance would have to be made in the measuring. 



