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various phases and stages, of those that -relate to the se- 

 lection of foods, of those that govern digestion and also 

 of those that tend to promote the comfort and well being 

 of the animals. It also calls for a reasonable under- 

 standing of the knowledge of relative values of animals 

 of different types and at different stages of development, 

 of the relative value of foods and finished meat and milk 

 products that may be made from them, and the various 

 details of management that lead to higher achievement 

 in breeding, feeding and producing a finished product of 

 high relative value. 



From the foregoing it will be plainly evident that the 

 individual who attains to high success in stock keeping 

 must be a close observer, a correct thinker, a careful bus- 

 iness man, an untiring student of valuable live stock 

 literature and unsparing in his attentions to the needs 

 of the animals which he keeps. In other words, he must 

 be possessed of intelligence and industry in no small de- 

 gree. 



Bearing upon development. The growing of live 

 stock not only tends to advance intelligence as outlined in the 

 preceding sub-sections, but it would also appear to have 

 inherently a favorable influence on both physical and 

 intellectual development. This may be shown: (i) In 

 the fact that the foremost nations, both ancient and 

 modern were consumers of animal products in addition 

 to vegetable products, including fruits; (2) that people 

 who have lived entirely or mainly on flesh alone or on 

 vegetables alone, have never stood in the front rank 

 among the peoples of the earth, and (3) that these re- 

 sults are the typical outcome of supreme wisdom and 

 design in the arrangement which results in the 

 growth of products from the soil that may be consumed 

 directly by man ; of other products that can only be pre- 

 pared for human consumption by the animals that feed 

 upon them, and in the bestowment of animals capable of 

 thus transforming their foods. 



