Selection and Purchase of Grain. C9 



The purchase of grain should not be referred 

 to week, month, or year, in fact, to no period if 

 it can be avoided. It is much better to store up 

 corn and ensure it being thoroughly dry, than to 

 depend upon purchase when it is immediately re- 

 quired. Many good bargains are put in the way 

 of owners who are open to purchase, and the 

 profit obtained helps to improve the appearance of 

 the credit side of the balance sheet. 



Where roomy grain floors cannot be had, it 

 becomes a matter of greater necessity that the 

 provender should be dry, and of guaranteed weight 

 and measure. Of a necessity also, a higher price 

 must be paid for it, and even under those circum- 

 stances it answers far better than the use of inferior 

 kinds. To constant purchasers, dealers are to be 

 found who will endeavour to provide what is re- 

 quired in the shape of a regular sample, and thus 

 difficulties are greatly overcome. 



These principles have been more understood of 

 late by those who feed large numbers of horses, 

 and whose competitive kind of work requires them 

 to study every item of expenditure. In some 

 instances animals are fed inexpensively, and pre- 

 serve their health and condition with remarkable 

 benefit from the system, even under much harder 

 work. 



