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PROFITABLE STOCK RAISING 



high grain prices cause an extension of grain pro- 

 duction, pastures are plowed up, farm animals are 

 disposed of, and a very material reduction in the 

 number of farm animals is the immediate result. 



Further than this, the production of stock is, in 

 a new country, associated with cheap land. As the 

 land advances in value, it has been the common 

 practice to reduce the number of farm animals, the 



ELEVATION OF HORSE BARN 



feeling being that cattle, sheep, hogs and horses 

 cannot be profitably raised on high-price land. 



Then an added factor is found by Professor Mum- 

 ford to be having its influence. In some sections 

 of the United States the tendency is toward tenant 

 farming. The original landowners have accu- 

 mulated enough money to retire and move to town. 

 In securing tenants to replace these original hold- 

 ers there is great difficulty in getting hold of ten- 

 ants who care to handle live stock. Some of them 

 do not have experience, while others feel that as 

 their stay is only temporary at best, it will not pay 

 them to stock up with farm animals. The recent 

 tendency, however, among farmers, to adopt per- 



