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CHAPTER I. 

 LIVE STOCK AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING. 



In one respect the story of agriculture is the same in 

 every country. History has shown that the relation be- 

 tween highest success in farming and the growing and 

 fattening of live stock is so close as to be inseparable. 

 It has further shown that the measure of the success at- 

 tained is proportionate to the extent to which live stock is 

 kept and maintained, and to the high quality of the same. 

 It follows, therefore, that every legitimate encouragement 

 should be given to the live stock industry, and that every 

 legitimate effort should be made to deepen the farmer's 

 interest in live stock production. Make it clear to the 

 farmer that maintaining live stock on his farm will in- 

 crease his profits and promote in many ways his best in- 

 terests, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, he will 

 invest in the same. If the demonstration cannot be made 

 clear to him that these results may be expected to follow 

 where the work is properly conducted, he should not be 

 urged to engage in such work. To make it clear that such 

 results may be expected is the purpose of this chapter. 



The following are prominent among the benefits that 

 accompany the judicious keeping of live stock on the 

 farm: (i) It increases profits; (2) aids greatly in the 

 maintenance of fertility ; (3) benefits rotation ; (4) utili- 

 zes cheap foods; (5) insures cheaper transportation of 

 farm products; (6) distributes labor more evenly 

 throughout the year; (7) promotes industry in the farm- 

 er's household; (8) advances intelligence in the same; 

 (9) tends to moor the young people in the farm home to 

 farm life, and (10) is essential to the highest develop- 

 ment in the nation. 



