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more than grain farmers. This wide difference in favor of Uvestock 

 farmers holds true in each of the States. 



"Each farm must be more of a factory — selling less crops and moro 

 meat, milk, butter and eggs. There are $161.22 of soil-fertihzing ele- 

 ments in the feed we ship off the farm which, if fed, would produce a 

 ton of beef, and then only $12.99 in fertility would leave the farm with 

 the beef. There are about $7.22 of fertilizing constituents in a ton of 

 bacon, but when we sell the feed instead of the hogs, we lose $97.31 

 in fertility — in farm assets. A ton of butter carries away but 6 cents 

 from the farm fertility, while selling the feed required to produce the ton 

 carries away $374.67. 



"The utilization of these facts has helped make prosperous and 

 doubly fertile farms and fields of Denmark, Germany and other wise 

 nations. They do not sell their farms by tons and pounds, but sell the 

 crops and finished products that carry away the least fertility. 



"In 1913 the South exported to Germany, Denmark, Belgium the 

 Netherlands, and Great Britain, 1,138,000,000 pounds of cottonseed 

 meal and cake — each pound taking away just so much of our permanent 

 fertility and adding it to Europe's, and the same is true of our Northern 

 flaxseed oil meal cakes. If these European folk can pay freight and 

 charges thousands of miles away and make a profit, why can't and 

 don'.t we? 



"A man who does not raise or feed some livestock, who does not have a 

 large proportion of colt-raising mares among the horses, who does not 

 have a manure spreader working on schedule or a few sheep to clean up, 

 is not a real farmer and is not getting more than a fraction of the returns 

 he would otherwise get." 



'Interest in Farm Life.— Man was created in the image of 

 God. Next to him are the animals of the world. These in- 

 clude the farm animals. There is nothing on the farm that will 

 create such universal and such deep interest in the child, in 

 the family, and even in the farmer himself as the farm live- 

 stock. Many a man has been inspired to nobler deeds and to 

 higher ideals by coming into contact in an interested way with 

 animals. 



Why is it that in modern times many a well-to-do person 

 has put aside his automobile and has gone back to the horse 

 for pleasure purposes? It is simply on account of the rela- 

 tionship that exists. There is no relationship or connection 

 between a man and a dead machine that touches the real man 

 or the spirit. But once a man is connected up with a horse 

 by means of the reins, touch, sight, thought and voice, he gets 

 a response. It is in this that man finds something worth 



