THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



a substantial basis of evolution or revolution for changing the con- 

 ditions of the common people, especially among our rural popu- 

 lation." 



"Also, take another proposition — that farming cannot be suc- 

 cessfully carried on in any country without live stock. I have noted 

 how the nations as the lands advanced in price, have changed from 

 tillage crops to grass crops. When I was a boy three-fourths of 

 England was under tillage. To-day less than one-fourth is under 

 tillage, and the population has multiplied many fold." 



"Mark you, speaking of the better thing: It takes about 19 

 pounds of clover a day to sustain a 1,000 pound animal. No profit; 

 simply a case of keeping the machinery running and at the end of 

 a year you have simply sustained life. Your profit lies in getting 

 that animal to eat some more. If it can eat and digest 20 pounds 

 you make a profit on 1 pound. The 19 pounds is waste to run the 

 the machinery. Now, the animal that can consume and digest and 

 assimilate 21 pounds is worth twice as much as the animal that can 

 consume 20, because with the animal that consumes 20 pounds you 

 make a profit on 1 pound and with the animal that consumes 21 

 pounds you make a profit on 2 pounds, and so it goes on in pro- 

 portion. If you get the animal to consume 20 pounds it is worth ten 

 times as much as the animal that consumes only 19 pounds. Profit 

 lies in the best. This is true in every way; whether in the case of a 

 horse, or a cow, or a citizen, the profit is in the best." 



"Keeping stock in the future must be more of a problem of 

 pasture and hay than of grain. Grain is too strong as a main food 

 and too expensive. It fevers the system, and, therefore, we must 

 have grasses and luscious pastures — well drained, not old sour 

 grass, but an abundant pasturage, sweet and nutritive, so that it is a 

 pie counter to the animal. We must do more intelligent farming." 



"Modern farming is going to require more power on the farm. 

 The time when a man could get a living with the hoe has passed. 

 Labor has become too scarce and too high priced and the demand of 

 living now is of too high a grade." 



"And you may take the whole animal kingdom, even up to men, 

 and you will find only a small per cent first class. We want to 

 change these things and it is your problem to help change them, 

 beginning with the lower orders, but ultimately to change the men 



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