790 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



each animal can be regulated, and the weaker animals can be 

 given their full share, which is not the case when fed in feed- 

 lots. An opportunity is given to try experiments with different 

 foods, or, by weighing the food for a given time, and the animal 

 before and after the experiment, and this enables the feeder 

 to find out valuable facts concerning the amount and kind of 

 food to give. By confining the animals in stalls, we greatly 

 economize shelter, as at least three animals can be sheltered, 

 when tied, in the space that would be monopolized by one loose. 



I give here an article from the pen of J. G. Oxer, who has 

 been a successful stall-feeder of cattle. 



Feeding Cattle. "As the demand for good beef, both in 

 this country and Europe, is steadily on the increase, the subject 

 of feeding cattle, or the production of good beef becomes more 

 and more important to the farmers of this country each succeed- 

 ing year. How to produce the most and best beef with the 

 least possible expense, should be the aim of every one engaged 

 in the raising of cattle, and one of the very essential points is 

 to have a good beef-producing breed to begin with. The writer 

 has had considerable experience in feeding the various breeds of 

 cattle for market, and finds a vast difference in the growth and 

 feeding qualities of the good grade Short-horn and the common 

 scrub. Cattle intended for the shambles should always have a 

 plentiful supply of good food, no stinting or starving to make 

 them hardy, as some say. 



" It is no uncommon occurrence to see cattle no larger at 

 three years than they should be at twenty months or two 

 years, and this is generally caused by the starving process 

 during the first year, when the animal is too young to take care 

 of itself among a herd of older cattle. The old maxim, that 

 'what is worth doing at all is worth doing well,' holds good in 

 this as well as all other occupations. As stated before, to 

 derive the greatest profit the animal must be kept growing from 

 birth until it is slaughtered. In this article we will give mostly 

 our own experience. 



"Should the calf be dropped in the fall, it is either fed by 

 hand on good sweet milk for the first five or six months, with 



