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of nutritious food adapted to the growth of the young animals. 

 Fat is an unwholesome product of the young, of all species, 

 but the breeder who allows stock to stand still or not gain 

 steadily in flesh, without feeding to fatten is losing sight 

 of his own profit. The practice of starving stockers in the 

 Fall season, that one may have the more feed in the Winter 

 and Spring months is, in my opinion, saving at the spigot and 

 letting out at the lung. 



After my stockers reach the age of say 80 months, I then 

 begin feeding corn, Summer and Winter, attending them closely 

 until they leave the farm. I feed in troughs and keep an 

 abundance of fresh water. My cattle put on in Winter 

 months from 2 to 3 lbs. per day ; when on grass and corn from 

 3 to 4 lbs. per day, — have reached 5 lbs., though rarely. 



I have been the most successful in feeding grade cattle. 

 I prefer natives mixed with the Short Horns. A good yearling 

 steer is cheaper at $15, than an inferior one is at $8. 



The dairy I make no specialty of. My cows are good 

 quality of grade, bred to the Short Horn, giving me the best 

 stockers and feeders. 



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I prefer the Poland China and Berkshire, as they are the 

 breeds that are best adapted to our climate, and put on flesh 

 equal to any breeds I have tried. Breeding of fine hogs I have 

 never practiced, although I think it would be profitable in our 

 section, as it costs but little to make a shoat, say the first 100 

 lbs., and then sell for breeder. My stockers are fed by follow- 

 ing the cattle. I use two lots, keeping the cattle one day 

 ahead of hogs. The last two months of feeding, keep them 

 entirely to themselves. My pork costs me on an average 2i 

 cts. per pound. 



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I generally cultivate 200 acres each year. I use the best 

 plows that I can buy. Plow my ground from 4 to 6 inches 

 deep, then harrow until very fine, getting the ground thor- 

 oughly pulverized before planting. In an ordinary season I 

 plant in the first half of the month of April, then tend well 



