NOVEMBER 



On the farm. When the harvest is over and the 

 winter stores are properly put away, we shall look to 

 the stock on our farm. We must decide what stock we 

 shall keep over winter and what we should sell. The 

 barns and sheds must be in good repair, the mows and 

 silos full of feed, and all conveniences possible provided 

 for the care and feeding of the live stock. The most im- 

 portant work on the farm during the winter months is 

 the care and feeding of the farm animals. 







LESSON XX 

 THE STOCK ON THE FARM 



The good farmer in most cases avoids "scrub" stock. 

 He has learned that it pays to take good care of his stock, 

 and that it costs no more in care and feed to raise a good 

 animal than to raise a poor one. The successful farmer 

 has also learned that it pays to keep plenty of live stock 

 on the farm. Farm animals are kept primarily to sup- 

 ply the demand for meat, milk, eggs, wool, and to fur- 

 nish motive power for certain kinds of labor, but they 

 also make possible a larger production of grain year 

 after year, and a complete utilization of everything grown 

 on the farm, besides returning to the farm a large per- 

 centage of the feed in the form of valuable fertilizers. 



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