THE YOUNG FARMER 



decreasing while it is earning a satisfactory 

 and fairly uniform income. 



It is necessary, therefore, to consider what 

 products are to be sold and what are simply 

 subsidiary to the cash products. The cash 

 products may, of course, be soil products or 

 animal products, but more likely they will 

 be both. When animals form a large part 

 of the enterprise the cropping system must 

 be carefully adjusted to meet the needs of 

 these animals. Many apparently trivial de- 

 tails must be considered, as for example, 

 whether the cropping system furnishes too 

 little or too much bedding for the live stock. 



In considering profits the enterprise as a 

 whole must be kept in view. For example, 

 if a man is producing milk, it may be 

 cheaper, so far as the production of milk is 

 concerned, to allow the liquid excrement to 

 run to waste rather than to arrange for suffi- 

 cient bedding. If, however, by using an 

 abundance of bedding and saving all the 

 high-priced nitrogen and the larger part of 

 the potash in the manure, he is able to raise 

 twelve tons of silage in place of eight tons, 

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