PART 11 



CHAPTER XXVI 

 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



258. Utilizing Farm Crops. The farmer grows grass, 

 alfalfa, grains, cotton, fruits and other crops which he 

 desires to convert into money. There are two ways of 

 marketing the surplus feeds grown on the farm: (1) The 

 crops may be sold to other persons to be fed to stock, 

 or (2) they may be fed to animals on the farm where 

 they are produced and worked up into a variety of 

 products of less weight and bulk, as beef, pork, poultry, 

 eggs, milk, horses, mules, cows, etc. These finished 

 products may often be marketed for much more than 

 could be secured for the feed alone. And, in addition, 

 there will be retained on the farm much of the fertility, 

 in the feeds for the benefit of succeeding crops. 



259. The Farm is a Factory where the plant and 

 animal products are made from the crude substances 

 of the air and soil. It is just as necessary to keep the 

 soil able to sustain large yields as to keep the machinery 

 in the mills in good working order. The wealth-pro- 

 ducing power of the farm lies in the productiveness of 

 the soils. It costs something every year to restore to 

 the soil the power to make a large yield of wheat (see 

 1 111), but it costs more to grow wheat on land that 

 averages only half crops during the life of a farmer. 



260. The Cost of Manufacture and the value of the 



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