1 6 . FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



increasing the wage bill. While thus engaged, the mem- 

 bers of the home have the great advantage of parental 

 oversight, and they enjoy all 'the privileges which home 

 furnishes. In the absence of live stock on farms, family 

 labor can only be remunerative through the growing sea- 

 son. With live stock it becomes remunerative through 

 all the year. 



Bearing on industry. Stocking farms to their full 

 capacity tends in a marked degree to the promotion of 

 industry in rural communities and to the formation of 

 industrious habits of young people who are reared on 

 such farms. These results are brought about: (i) By the 

 increase in labor thus necessitated; (2) through the dis- 

 tribution of the same over the entire year. The habits of 

 industry thus maintained in the parents and begotten and 

 developed in the children, are of inestimable value to 

 rural communities, to industrial centers, and to the entire 

 nation. 



The increase in labor thus necessitated has been dealt 

 with in part in the sub-division preceding. It has been 

 shown that such increase in labor is necessitated through 

 the necessity for a wider rotation, through the preparing 

 of foods for feeding and through feeding and caring for 

 the animals. To this may be added the statement that 

 such labor increases the farmer's profits, as a rule, and for 

 this reason if for no other, it is to be commended. 



It increases his profits in various ways, (see p. 2) but 

 more probably than in any other way through the added 

 value given to farm products by converting them into 

 more valuable forms. In this way every farm home thus 

 managed becomes a factory in which foods in the raw 

 form, so to speak, are manufactured into what may be 

 termed finished form. The parents are the managers of 

 this factory and all the members of the family are co- 

 operative partners in it. Turning coarse fodders, field 

 roots and screenings which may have practically no value 

 on the farm into butter worth 20 to 25 cents per pound 



