20 A STUDY OF FARM ANIMALS 



community. Their homes and farm buildings indicate com- 

 fort and prosperity, when compared with what one sees on 

 farms where live stock is not a part of the system of manage- 

 ment. There is a pride in the ownership of a fine herd that 

 creates a desire on the part of the owner to improve and 

 beautify his home. Thus he becomes interested in com- 

 munity welfare, and often renders service of a public nature 

 that is much to his credit. The most beautiful and attrac- 

 tive farm homes one sees in traveling through England and 

 Scotland, are occupied by men who are owners of fine flocks 

 and herds. In the United States the same condition pre- 

 vails, whether we are in the blue-grass region of Kentucky, or 

 the wide prairies of Illinois and Iowa, or the alfalfa fields of 

 Kansas and Colorado. Should we not, therefore, do all we 

 can to create an interest in farm animals, and thus develop 

 a higher class of citizenship amongst us? 



DO YOU KNOW 



1. What people are especially interested in live stock? 



2. How many farms animals we have in the United States? 



3. What states lead in numbers of each kind of live stock? 



4. How many car loads of stock enter Chicago market daily? 



5. When man first domesticated animals? 



6. How much meat we eat per capita a year? 



7. What cattle are used for labor? 



8. How live stock is related to farm fertility? 



9. What a ton of stable manure is worth? 

 10. How the animal resembles a machine? 



