THE SOIL, THE PLANT, THE ANIMAL II 



plant, and as such is the food of the animal. Feed 

 the plant or its fruits to live stock and get meat or 

 wool or milk or labor from the organized tissue; 

 then let the animals return these, now disorganized 

 and broken up, back to the soil, in manure or ex- 

 crement, so as to get a new growth of plants. By 

 letting live stock prepare the plant food you gain 

 in both ways. 



3. The animal changes raw materials into fin- 

 ished products. The feeder can take corn, grass, clover, 

 bran, gluten and other feeding stuffs and from them 

 compound balanced rations for all classes of live 

 stock. These are simply raw materials, and as 

 such command low prices if placed on the markets 

 of the world. An increased value follows their 

 change into, a finished product. A dairy cow, fed a 

 mixture of 25 pounds of corn stover, clover hay, 

 wheat bran and gluten, worth a few cents, will 

 produce butter or milk worth many cents. The in- 

 creased value is the result of the change from the 

 form of raw materials into a finished product at 

 once usable as food for human beings. 



