CARE OF LIVESTOCK 



to breed only the best you've got, and always to use good blood for sires. 

 Uo not select for pedigree alone, or even individual performance. Put 

 your real money in a proved sire: let his sons and daughters be the test 

 of quality. You could experiment twenty years in breeding, and learn 

 nothing more important than this statement you have just read. 



Figure for yourself what you can do in a half dozen generations 

 with strict attention to selecting pure bred sires in your herd. 



This table has equal application in the breeding of all classes of live 

 stock. 



You can see that it really does pay, as nothing else on the farm can pay, 

 to put money into the right kind of a sire. 



CARE OF LIVESTOCK 



BREEDING, Care and Feeding these three topics make up the whole 

 science of managing livestock to make it pay. 

 There can be no thrift in management without equal attention 

 to all three. 



You start right when you make a proper type selection, and you keep 

 right when you follow scientific care, and feed according to feeding laws. 



Man can combat nature that is, he can counteract bad conditions 

 by proper care, and get a surprising amount of good even out of bad 

 material. But the thrifty farmer must keep a sharp eye out on thriftless 

 Nature, for she is a wasteful, extravagant dame. The truth is that Nature 

 cares only to preserve herself by perpetuating the most fit. The unfit she 

 gets rid of the easiest way. 



It is a curious fact that in a state of nature, if animals breed to the 

 extent of overcrowding, Nature frets herself until she starts some disease, 

 which gets rid of the weakest animals and leaves more room for the best. 

 Disease-producing germs were intended by Nature for just this culling out 

 of the weakest plants, brutes or men for a healthier survival of those 

 most fit. 



AGAINST NATURE Domestication with the consequent crowding into 

 stables, pens or other buildings, is against natural 



law. Nature will fight against it; but the thrifty stockman knows how to 

 fight against Nature's laws. 



Wild horses and cattle roaming the plains were not crowded in their 

 range, and the most abundant air, food and vigorous exercise aided to keep 

 up the standard of health. But even then, they were thinned by natural 

 enemies and disease, when demanded for balance by Nature's law. 



