USING FEEDS FOR BEST RESULTS 35 



This personal touch is of great importance, and 

 includes everything involved in the preparation of 

 feeds that the highest digestibility may be secured. 

 Rough treatment, bad quarters, irregularity in feed- 

 ing, usually in themselves will overbalance the ad- 

 vantages gained in attempting to influence digesti- 

 bility and larger consumption through better prep- 

 aration for easier mastication, or through appeal to 

 the taste and appetite. 



The good feeder is a good judge of stock. He is 

 careful, cautious, and habitually regular; endowed 

 with virtues of patience, perseverance, and good 

 common sense, he treats his animals as though they 

 were children in a schoolroom. He watches every 

 detail ; if a slight change or modification of method 

 is necessary, he sees that this is effected at once. 

 He meets all contingencies as they arise, calmly and 

 without excitement. Above all, he possesses a 

 refinement of manner and disposition that causes 

 his animals to know and love him. Thus they will 

 repay in more willing labor or in more milk or in 

 cheaper beef, pork or wool. Herein is the real secret 

 of feeding the animals of the farm successfully. 



