DIVISION FIFTEENTH. 



FEEDING LIVE-STOCK. 



The subject of feeding embraces a very large and a very im- 

 portant proportion of the economy of stock-breeding, on whatever 

 scale it may be conducted. The object of the producer is, of course, 

 to obtain the greatest return in value for his investment and the 

 outlay thereon, in the live stock to which he devotes his attention. 

 No amount of care and attention to breeding will ensure the best 

 results without a corresponding care and attention to the matter of 

 feeding, and it is just as essential to success, in the one case as in 

 the other, that the work be governed by system and intelligent pur- 

 pose. The importance of this cannot be over-estimated, and the 

 information here conveyed, compiled from the highest authorities 

 and epitomizing rules derived from the experience of the most 

 prominent and successful breeders, will, if applied by the reader to 

 the general management of his stock, be found of the greatest value 

 and profit. Every farmer knows the value of his own experience, 

 and is always ready to profit by that of his neighbors ; but they are 

 sometimes led by want of consideration to underrate the importance 

 of that which is conveyed in a book. It should be understood that 

 the knowledge contained in these pages is not mere book knowledge. 

 It is on the contrary but the formulated experience of many practical 

 and successful men in the different branches of stock-raising, 

 acquired in a large measure by costly experiments, which no ordinary 

 agriculturist can afford to make for himself, but which, if he pos- 

 sesses intelligence and appreciation, he can adapt to his own profit 

 and benefit. Care has been exercised that everything herein con- 

 tained is of real, substantial and practical value, and no one who is 

 not so engrossed in that unprofitable self -wisdom, which shuts its 

 fyes upon the advantages of improvement, can fail to derive from 

 these pages, in one direction or another, the means of increasing the 

 income and reducing the cost of whatever branch of stock-raising 

 he may be most concerned in. Often a single item will prove of 

 more value to him than the cost of the book. 



FEEDING OF HORSES. 



No other animal requires greater care, and none will yield a 

 larger return therefor, than the horse. The first suggestion of the 

 question " How shall the horse be fed ? " is that the demand made 

 upon the muscular system of the horse is greater than upon that of 



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