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Meanwhile, he has pastured cattle, sheep or hogs 

 throughout the year, winter as well as summer, 

 upon his field, and has realized from them a greater 

 profit than the field originally brought him when 

 he applied commercial fertilizer and planted tobacco 

 or cotton. The new South is realizing more and 

 more the fact that it needs more good home-raised 

 farm animals. Not only does it need greater num- 



SELF-FEEDER FOR A MISSOURI FARM 



bers, but it needs higher quality and increased ef- 

 ficiency in every class of domestic animals. The 

 day has gone in the South as well as in other sec- 

 tions of the country when horses of no particular 

 type or breeding are profitable to raise, when a 

 steer which must be kept until it is four or five 

 years old to be brought to marketable condition 

 is a paying proposition, or when the razor-back type 

 of hog can be profitably produced even in Southern 

 canebrakes. 



