PART II 

 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



CHAPTER IX 



FARM ANIMALS AND LIVE-STOCK FARMING 



Live-stock fanning. So important are farm animals in 

 agriculture that whole systems of farming are built about the 

 live-stock interests. Without discussing the comparative 

 merits of live-stock farming and grain farming, we must all 

 agree that the raising of live stock on any farm has its 

 advantages both to the farm and to the public good. Since 

 the decrease of live stock on the great ranges of the West, 

 and since general farmers have commonly stopped raising 

 cattle because they were unable to compete with the 

 production of the range, the raising of live stock has 

 decreased in the United States until in the last decade 

 we have had an 8 per cent decrease of live stock 

 and a 25 per cent increase of our population. As 

 a public question, therefore, it is of prime importance that 

 the farms of the country begin the business of raising more 

 live stock. This would, furthermore, work to the advantage 

 of the individual farmer. The raising of live stock on the 

 farm enables farmers to utilize profitably much material that 

 would otherwise be of little value. Moreover, by feeding 

 his fodder and grain to animals he can get much more than 



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