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than most other live stock. Relatively, therefore, they 

 may be grown cheaply. 



The return is also large, for the numbers kept. 

 Where the farmer devotes his attention mainly to the 

 growing of this class of stock, he does not need to have 

 many of them on the place at one time, hence there is 

 but little hazard of loss in a season of drought. Where 

 range of rough pastures is accessible, in the larger 

 portion of the dry country, horses will come through 

 the winter in good form without the necessity of very 

 much supplemental food. 



The supplemental foods for the feeding of growing 

 foals include alfalfa, fodder corn fed in the bundle, and 

 straw, in northern areas. For idle work horses, straw 

 will suffice for much of the winter. In southern areas, 

 alfalfa, Milo maize, Kaffir corn and sorghum will best 

 answer the purpose. Milo maize is also much esteemed 

 for feeding work horses in these areas. It is usually 

 fed to them as grain food in the head, which not only 

 obviates the necessity for threshing the grain, but it 

 also insures a more complete digestion of the naturally 

 hard grain, since it is more thoroughly masticated. 



Growing dairy cattle. That the dry farm is not 

 nearly so well adapted for dairying as the irrigated farm 

 cannot be gainsaid. The creamery, therefore, will not 

 probably be much in evidence where dry farming is fol- 

 lowed for many years subsequent to the settlement of 

 the land. But this does not mean that home dairying 

 may not be practised in a moderate way, even at the 

 outset of the farming. It may even be wise in some in- 

 stances for a farmer to give considerable attention to 

 dairying at the outset, where free pasture is plentiful, 

 but when the stock must be confined to the limits of the 

 arable farm, the number of cows kept should not usually 

 be large. 



