206 THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 



pends upon the man behind the business. The 

 main things are the right breeds of stock, the feed, 

 the feeding, the sanitation and the care bestowed, 

 and the production of these essentials depends 

 upon the man. 



The most important thing is the production of 

 an abundance of the right kind of food. The food 

 generally relied upon on the average farm is corn, 

 timothy and clover hay, and a forage of blue grass 

 and clover. To depend upon these in this day and 

 generation would mean that upon the average 

 farm there would be little stock produced at a 

 profit, so we must get away from this idea of 

 producing feeds for stock. 



The trouble with most farmers is that they are 

 impregnated with the idea that blue grass, tim- 

 othy, clover and matured corn are the only feeds. 

 The folly of depending upon these feeds for ex- 

 tensive stock raising upon the average farm is 

 apparent if we but lay aside our prejudices and 

 study carefully the situation. 



Blue grass is fine for the season it lasts, but 

 it is susceptible to drouth, does not grow in abun- 

 dance except upon our best cultivated lands. Oc- 

 casionally we find waste woodland or lands not 

 susceptible of cultivation that produce fairly good 

 pasture of blue grass, but such conditions are 

 rarely found. If lands are at all susceptible of 

 cultivation, other forage crops can be grown upon 

 them more abundantly and at greater profit. 



Timothy produces but one crop a season, and 

 generally not in abundance unless the land upon 

 which it is grown is extra fertile. On average 

 lands its output is less than a ton to the acre, 



