HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



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TWO OP A KIND 



If the live stock industry of this country is not increased, 

 it will be but a short time before the United States will be 

 unable to supply its own, and this is nothing short of suicide, 

 self-sacrifice, when it is considered that the Western state? 

 alone are able today, to supply not only the requirements of 

 the country, but to fill to repletion the peoples of Europe and 

 the far East with all the meat that their own lands are in 

 capable of producing, and all the horses that their immense 

 armies are crying for and their fashionable pursuits demand 

 There is enough grass in this Western country to feed stock 

 in numbers (hat can hardly be realized, and with the scientific 

 methods of advanced farming, to grow enough grain to put 

 them in such market condition as no other country could ap- 

 proach. Even with such advantages as these, silos and silage, 

 besides keeping stock in better condition, practically doubles 

 the value of the corn crop, and enables the farmer to feed twice 



