CHAPTER XIX 



Outlook for Live Stock 



Stock production for profit in the United States 

 is an industry which is yearly requiring an increas- 

 ing amount of skill and general intelligence. How 

 to maintain breeding animals on high-priced land, 

 how to rear and develop the young stock in such 

 a manner as to get the greatest possible growth 

 in the least time and with the smallest expenditure 

 of feed, how to fatten and finish these animals for 

 market, and how to market them in the most ad- 

 vantageous manner, are questions which require 

 for their solution ability and intelligence of no 

 mean order. Each phase of the industry would 

 require a volume in itself for adequate discussion. 

 Upon some of these subjects a tremendous amount 

 of accurate and valuable information is available. 

 Other phases so change from year to year and from 

 month to month that little can be said at one time 

 which could be applied to conditions a year later. 

 These points must be threshed out through the ex- 

 perience and keen judgment of the farmer and 

 feeder himself. 



THE BEEF SITUATION 



The question of the future beef supply of the 

 country is one of the most interesting as well as 

 the most important questions in the entire field of 

 agricultural economics. For more than 50 years 

 the number of cattle per capita in the United States 

 has been decreasing, although the absolute num- 



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