THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI. S'di 



until nearly a year old, and hogs following it would starve to death on 

 that kind of waste. We would feed the heifer calves intended for dairy 

 purposes, oats and damaged wheat only, except in the severest cold 

 weather when we might give them a little corn. We would not aim 

 to make these calves fat, simply good growing order, and would expec" 

 them to come out in the spring from fifty to one hundred pounds lighter 

 in weight than steers of the same age and quality. We would, however, 

 keep up the grain feed as in the case of the steers, until the grass becam< 

 properly nutritious. 



The same correspondent asks how we should feed a young bull calf 

 during the first winter. If he intends him for sale, we would feed it as 

 we would the steers intended for beef, but if we intended to keep him for 

 our own use, we would put him in with the hei-fers, possibly giving him 

 an additional feed of corn in order to make a more rapid growth. He 

 will have to associate with females all his life and he may as well get 

 used to them, no great hardship in his case. The ration, however, of a 

 bull calf or any other kind of stock intended for breeding purposes, 

 should not be a fattening one, but a ration the object of which is to 

 develop bone and muscle, and the highest possible degree of vigor. 



BUTTERMAKING AS A PROFESSION. 



Professor G. L. McKay, Iowa Agricultural College. 

 Monthly Bulletin, Missouri State Board of Agriculture. 



This is an age of combinations and concentration of capital. It is 

 also an age of specialists. The general purpose man must necessarily fall 

 to the rear. Every man should be educated along some line of business. 

 Whiie I am a strong believer of adaptability, I cannot think that the man 

 who has made a success as a specialist would have made a failure at any 

 other business if he had applied the same energy and thought to it. 



Success in any business never comes by chance or luck. Chauncey 

 Depew, being asked by a young man what was the secret of success, 

 replied: "My boy, there is no secret to it. It is just dig, dig, dig." Edi- 

 son, being asked to give the definition of genius, answered: "Two per 

 cent is genius and ninety-eight per cent is hard work." On another occas- 

 ion when this great inventor was asked if he did not believe that genius 

 was simply inspiration, he replied: "No, genius is perspiration." The 

 editor of a western newspaper sent to all the successful men in his city 

 this question: "Why is it that not more of our young men succeed?" 

 And one answer came in this laconic phrase: "Because too many of 

 them are looking for white-shirt jobs." Possibly this was a homely way 

 of saying it, but it is true in many cases, especially with many of our col- 

 lege graduates. Some imagine that because they have a college educa- 

 tion they must necessarily get an easy, high-salaried position. It is well 

 to have a technical education, but it is also well to have a manual train- 



