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Fattening Cattle Should be Fed Regularly and Be Kept Quiet. 



Clock-like regularity in the feeding and watering of cattle 

 on full feed is of the utmost importance. If possible, the same 

 man even should always do x the feeding, and it is important 

 that this be the most intelligent and trustworthy man on the 

 farm. It is scarcely possible for a man to get the best gains 

 out of cattle and to get them all to come along uniformly and 

 have no founders and "throw outs" unless he take a personal 

 interest in the work in hand. To make the crop and general 

 farm work the principal and the cattle feeding the subsidiary 

 thing is likely to prove unfortunate for the cattle. 



OTHER FACTORS THAN CHEAPNESS OF GAINS. 



The student should keep constantly in mind that there 

 are other factors than mere cost of gains which bear quite as 

 important a relation to the profitable outcome as does this 

 one. The experiment station has been too apt to consider this 

 alone arid to call the problem settled in the direction that the 

 greatest economy in gains led. In the buying of the animals 

 there is required an intimate knowledge of the whole range of 

 cattle feeding and of market requirements with regard to 

 different classes of cattle at different seasons of the year, etc. 

 The business judgment developed at this point will affect very 

 vitally the financial outcome. The feeder in this respect is a 

 speculator, and to be wholly successful he must be able to fore- 

 cast with a considerable degree of accuracy what the state of 

 the market will be six months in the future or at the time when 

 the cattle he is buying will be ready to market. He must aisu 

 be able to determine the degree to which the cattle are to be fin- 

 ished to bring, not the highest price of which cattle of that class 

 are capable, but, rather, the largest profit. 



Endeavor to Meet the Requirements of the Market. 



No sounder advice could be given the beginner than to study 

 carefully the requirements of the market. This may be best 

 done by visiting the market as frequently as possible and espe- 



