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as many animals to the acre as he could under the old system. 

 Such conditions, with the educational opportunities of acquiring 

 practical knowledge through the various agricultural colleges, 

 state fairs and live stock exhibitions, the youth of America 

 whose taste runs in the direction of stock breeding, is in a 

 better position to become expert in its methods than the youth 

 of any other nation under the sun; and apart from this, the 



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future, the returns and the fortunes that await the stock 

 breeders of this country are so immense, as compared with a like 

 industry anywhere else, as to make comparison an impossi- 

 bility. In addition to this, look at the life, look at the free- 

 dom, look at the wholesome, free existence of the man who 

 takes up this remunerative business, and compare it with the 

 mechanical drudgery and nerve-racking work of the city man 

 who must keep his nose to the grindstone from dawn till mid 

 night if he intends to be in front in this frightfully fast and 

 overcrowded race for existence ; and where is he at the end, 

 and what his condition, though he be a winner? An old man, 



