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greatly lessened. It is the same all along the line. 

 Market everything you can through your horses, 

 your cattle, your hogs, or your sheep. 



STOCK ON HIGH PRICE LAND 



Accepting the above as good, sound business 

 policy, the question naturally arises, can live stock 

 be profitably raised on $200 an acre land? Prof. H. 

 W. Mumford of the university of Illinois insists that 

 it can. Some forms of live stock production should 

 and will be abandoned. Scrubs must be disposed of. 

 Plenty of feed must be used and the feed must be 

 economically and judiciously handled. Contrary to 

 the opinion that has been frequently expressed, 

 Professor Mumford states that except in minor in- 

 stances, it is not true that the older agricultural 

 countries like Germany, France, Holland and Den- 

 mark, are abandoning live stock production because 

 of increased population and increased price of land. 

 Whether or not live stock may ultimately disappear 

 from the farms of the United States is largely a 

 matter of conjecture. This tendency is so remote 

 that at present it need not be considered. It is the 

 consumption of corn and other grains and hay by 

 live stock that makes it possible for the man in the 

 middle West to produce heavily and thus reach this 

 present high valuation. With the elimination of live 

 stock husbandry this large return would not be 

 possible. It is estimated that 80 per cent of 

 the corn produced in the United States is fed 

 to live stock. This home consumption, therefore, 

 is the chief reason for the high-price grain and con- 

 sequent high price of land. Not every farmer will 

 be able to make live stock on $200 an acre land pay, 

 but, as a rule, the intelligent, skillful feeder can and 



