20 CONKEV'S STOCK BOOK 



YOUR Stable management is entirely too important a matter to 



HIRED MAN be left to any but a careful supervisor. If men are hired 

 for stable work see that they are kind as well as capable. 

 The hired man has not the self-interest stimulus which usually makes the 

 owner a good caretaker, but see that, he has self -pride, and a good deal 

 of natural love for dumb animals, tQ.take its place. When you get hold 

 of a good man one painstaking injiis work, faithful to your interests 

 and the welfare of your stock treaCjiim the best you know how, for it 

 will pay, like any other good investm^t, for the more thrifty management 

 of your farm. 



RIGHT FEEDING 

 I. The Scientific Theory 



HUNCH your shoulders and get right down to it. You have here 

 the biggest one thing in managing live stock for profit. Feed for 

 profit. Most anyone can feed an animal so it won't starve. There is 

 neither sense nor money in that. The problem you are working is, how and 

 what to feed for biggest possible profit in the animal's production with the 

 least possible cost. 



THE WAY Fifty years ago you didn't have to bother simply went 

 DAD DID ahead with the feeding and fed the way Dad did. Or, if 

 Dad was a failure, you copied your most successful neigh- 

 bor. It was the only way you could do; for what and how much feed to 

 use was all settled by experience. There was no science about it. 



Stock raisers knew, from looking around and comparing different plans 

 of feeding, just about what they might expect from each in the way of 

 energy, production and thriving condition. Real knowledge of the subject 

 was in no man's head; and there was no short-cut through science, which is 

 what science is good for to us practical farmers. 



THE WAY We've a short-cut to all this knowledge, without waste of 

 WE DO years and labor, waste of live stock and waste of production. 



We know that foods vary; that their goodness depends on 

 certain necessary elements, which we call nutritive elements. We know that 

 not one of these, but all of them must be included or there is loss of energy, 

 loss of production, maybe loss of the animal; and that always, if not fed 

 in the right proportion as to these certain elements, the feed is expensive. 



NOW FOR IT! The names of these elements are so important, that 



THE ELEMENTS even the children on the farm ought to know them. 



We wish all the names were one-syllable; so every 



boy and girl, down to the littlest shaver, could repeat them, and grow 

 right up with a knowledge of their importance. Let us try dividing the 

 big ones; and maybe that boy or girl of yours will tackle them anyway, 

 as follows: 



Pro-te-in 



Car-bo-hy-drates 



Fat 



Ash or mineral 



Called the "nutritive elements" 

 or "digestible nutrients"; all 

 necessary to feed an animal. 



Now: every single food for dumb animals or human beings must 

 contain some one or more of these digestible nutrients; and usually any 

 given food will contain every one of these elements, but in very different 



