LESSON NINETEEN 
CONCERNING CATTLE 
1. Cattle farming.— Whoever raises cattle improves his 
farm. Grain or cotton or hay depletes the land. With 
cattle a leading feature, the farm becomes a farm factory, 
where crops home grown and farm raised are converted 
into milk or beef. Both are finished products that are 
worth as much or more than the commercial value of 
the crops consumed. In addition their fertilizing ele- 
ments are largely returned to the soil from which they 
were obtained originally. Crops ought to be “marketed 
on the hoof” as milk or butter or beef or pork or mutton. 
Such a system secures larger efficiency, insures better 
profits, improves the land, makes happier the family life. 
A 2. Quality.—In rais- 
Co)! UU —____—_G< ig live stock the aim is 
1, Et secure the highest 
 ———— efficiency in the line of 
Pork. =a . 
a breeding undertaken. 
Wuen 4 Ton Is SoLp Quality is an expres- 
In the sketch are indicated the relative —- 
amounts of plant food removed when a ton sion of fitness. It de- 
much ess exhaustive on the land than grain NOtes ancestry, lineage, 
cee breeding. Animals pos- 
sessing quality manifest the same in fine, silky hair; soft, 
mellow skin; neat, fine, bone; prominent veins in the 
skin ; fine features ; and in the choice products which they 
produce. 
3. Dairy temperament—A cow used for the dairy 
should possess, in addition to proper form and good qual- 
ity, an intangible something commonly known as dairy 
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