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Why Livestock? 



O be sure it pays to stick to the farm and live stock! Did you 

 ever see a run down farm where the farmer kept plenty of 

 live stock? 



Did you? 



Farming, like any other business, is made up of little things, 

 countless details. It's the little things that make up the big failure or 

 big success. Nothing is trivial. 



Profit means putting the farm on a business basis, crowding to 

 the limit for healthy production, spying out the sluggards and getting 

 rid of them, whether hired help or live stock. 



. There are some farmers, who are only "miners" always robbing 

 the soil and putting nothing back into it. There is a limit to the avail- 

 able acres. We have learned to prize the land. Preservation and con- 

 servation of the soil is the problem of this country today. Crops alone 

 can never make an ideal business farm. Besides this, there is too much 

 waste in gleaning, culling, roughage, which vigorous farm animals 

 could make into marketable flesh or products. Crop farming means 

 congested labor not hands enough in busy season, in winter too many 

 hands waiting idle. 



A business is not economically operated unless it distributes labor 

 over the entire year. For instance, a six months' occupation might be 

 considered profitable when estimated for that short period, while at 

 the same time the income from it spread out over the whole twelve 

 months might show an actual loss. Live stock equalize labor, distribute 

 it through the whole year and justify the owner in making his contracts 

 on a yearly basis. Help that is coming and going is not efficient or 

 economical in farm management, any more than it is in an office or 

 mercantile business. 



Statistics show that in sections devoted to the raising of live stock 

 and crops, the total wealth of farms is higher than the wealth of similar 

 farms in sections of equal resourcefulness and equal area but devoted 



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