FEEDING METHODS. 



IT is not my purpose in this chapter to enter 

 into any exhaustive discussion of the question 

 of cattle feeding. Such a discussion would 

 necessarily occupy a disproportionately large 

 amount of space and would be out of keeping 

 with the general plan of this work. I shall 

 only undertake to outline what has proved in 

 my experience the most practical method of 

 feeding breeding cattle, and to seek to show 

 that there is a middle line between the waste- 

 ful old-fashioned methods and the highly spe- 

 cialized, and often in actual application, very 

 expensive, methods of the theorists. 



I have no quarrel with the theorists. They 

 are the guides of all practical men. That they 

 are often impractical themselves is no reflec- 

 tion on their work. It is the experience of all 

 time that a man is moulded by his pursuits. 

 The student of matter is blinded by the one 

 subject held close to his eyes, and forgets that 

 there is a great world beyond of far different 

 phenomena, and he is led, step by step, into a 

 materialistic' belief which reckons on no world 

 but that of matter. He who studies mental 

 phenomena, and the phenomena of soul and 



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