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pended in vain, since many of earth's products would be 

 consumed to no purpose so far as man is concerned. This 

 would be true of the major portion of the products on 

 which domestic animals feed. It would deprive the hu- 

 man family of milk, the most valuable single food prod- 

 uct ever given to the world. It would mean that nearly 

 all the coarser grains now grown would not be grown, 

 from the absence of a sufficient incentive to grow them, 

 and that the by-products of all grains grown, as bran and 

 gluten meal, would be a waste, from the want of animals 

 to consume them. On the other hand, should animals only 

 be grown in any considerable numbers, then their only 

 use would be to furnish hides. The carcasses, so valuable 

 now, would then be naught but waste. Nor does it re- 

 move the difficulty to say that domestic animals capable 

 of milk production were given for that purpose only, 

 as this still leaves unexplained the great problem as to 

 why half the entire number of the milk giving classes of ani- 

 mals are males, and therefore, incapable of milk giving. The 

 evident mission, therefore, of all domestic animals is to util- 

 ize the products of the soil for man's advantage and they 

 accomplish this by turning their products into other food 

 forms, into materials for clothing and into energy to fur- 

 nish labor. 



It does not follow that some examples of unusual 

 strength of body and mind may not be found among men 

 who subsist wholly on flesh or wholly on vegetables. 

 In communities which subsist mainly on a mixed diet of 

 animal and vegetable products, much of this may be due 

 to inheritance. But it does follow, that rulers of the 

 world are just about certain to be consumers of such prod- 

 ucts and that, therefore, animals must be grown in ever 

 increasing numbers as the population increases in such 

 countries, in order to provide them with foods so inti- 

 mately related to national supremacy. 



Bearing on farm life. The growing of live stock has 

 an exceedingly important bearing on the interest taken 



