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and saleable and at a good paying price. Many of our farmers do 

 keep stock and tliey can tell you of its value in keeping up their 

 farms. Large dairies are in existence, some producing butter, some 

 hauling to the cheese factory and others sendmg their milk to the 

 cities. The making of butter makes a great deal of work on the farm, 

 viz.: care of cows, milking them, then the labor about the house 

 making the butter, caring for cans, etc. Now, every farmer who will 

 take the trouble to figure up the cost of this labor at its market 

 value must know that there is no money in making butter at present 

 prices. Then look at the sta*e of the ca:e, when milk is taken to 

 the factory to be made into cheese. Figure up the cost of keeping a 

 cow one year, your time in caring for cows, milking, hauling to fac- 

 tory, wear and tear of horses, wagons, etc., expense of cans, interest 

 on investment, and tell me if a gross return of twenty-five dollars to 

 thirty dollars per cow on an average will pay you for all this labor, 

 etc. Now, as regards raising horses, which it seems to me will pay 

 the farmer better than any other kind of stock raising, you are 

 wonderfully favored in having access to the very best stallions that 

 can be found anywhere in the broad land, stallions of the very best 

 quality, the highest type and the very best blood lines, whether for 

 the draft, the farm, the coach, road or track purposes. 



A colt can be raised to three years of age at about the same price 

 as a steer, the only extra expense in doing so being the service price 

 of a stallion, and this is more than covered by the extra price they 

 will sell for, even at common prices bringing three to five times the 

 value of the steer. Where good mares are bred, the produce will sell 

 for twice or three times the common price, which then makes it very 

 profitable. The brood mare can be used carefully during pregnancy, 

 so that she will earn her keeping. The fonl at three years old can 

 be broken to light work about the farm and wdll earn his living until 

 sold. Many will be sold from weaning time up. If a steer can be 

 raised in this country and sold at from $50 ta $60, how much more 

 profit is there in raising a foal that at the same age will bring 

 $150 to $500, and when an extra good one is raised, the price 

 will run up into the thousands. A farmer in m} county with whom 

 I am acquainted breeds one mare every year to one of the best stal- 

 lions, and he assures me that this one mare is worth more money 

 than the gross income of his wdiole farm of oup^ hundred acres. 



