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dance and some left; reduce the number of stock rather than 

 fail in this. Have some left to protect and encourage the 

 growth of the roots. It should be allowed to grow in the spring 

 until a considerable portion of the clover is in bloom, and it may 

 be so managed that a portion will be in bloom all season. On 

 almost every farm there may be some permanent pasture. All 

 good clay limestone land will produce bluegrass. Timber land 

 where the timber is not too dense, hillsides that would soon 

 become poor if plowed much, corners cut off by a ravine, if 

 well set in bluegrass and properly managed will afford a great 

 deal of pasture. It enables the farmer to alternate, to have 

 some growing while some is being eaten down. If this variety 

 of pasture is provided, stock can be carried over a much greater 

 portion of the year on pasture, and there is no feed equal to 

 good pasture for young stock. 



"The treatment of stock during winter should be made a 

 study. To carry stock through the winter it should be classi- 

 fied. The younger and weaker should be separated from the 

 stronger, and very special attention given to the young. An 

 old and successful farmer and stock grower once made a single 

 remark to me, when I was yet quite a young man, that has been 

 worth more to me than the reading of some volumes. He said, 

 " Do not forget that every young thing needs nursing," and he 

 intended the remark to apply to plants as well as animals. 



" Young, growing stock should have such care, attention, and 

 feed, as will secure a constant, uninterrupted growth, winter and 

 summer. Nature demands this, and if from any cause growth 

 is suspended for any considerable time, loss and injury are sus- 

 tained. This is especially true of the meat-producing animals 

 that are sold by weight. Whatever these animals may eat dur- 

 ing the period that growth is intermitted is more than a clear 

 loss. The disposition to take on flesh and mature early is 

 injured. And now I do not think I am putting it too strongly 

 when I give it as an opinion that one-half of the young cattle 

 stock will from year to year weigh more on the scales in the 

 month of November than they will the following April. If 

 children were treated in this way if their diet, clothing, and 



