IMPORTANCE OF FARM ANIMALS 



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for many dairy cows. On the rough, cheap hillsides of New 

 England, dairy cattle are the most important source of 

 income to the farmer. On the high, grassy hills of eastern 

 Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, are to be 

 found the largest flocks of sheep in this country east of the 

 Missouri river. ■ In the Southwest and far West of the United 

 States, on the cheaper rolling or broken lands, will be found 

 extensive herds and flocks. In the Northwest, among the 

 cut-over lands that have been deprived of their timber 



Figure 4. — Fat cattle on Ohio tiills. Photograph by the author. 



by the lumbermen, dairy cattle and dairymen are . being 

 developed on a greater scale than elsewhere in America. In 

 fact, the farmer generally plans on the use of his cheaper, 

 poorer lands as pasture for stock. Rightly handled, these 

 lands in most cases greatly increase in producing capacity 

 and value. Inasmuch as live stock also finds an appropriate 

 place on the more fertile and level farms, we must recognize 

 the fact that animals are adapted to gi eater extremes of soil 

 and land conditions than are the staple crops. Thus ani- 

 mals in a world-wide sense become subjects of great impor- 

 tance and interest. 



The class of people handling livestock, as a rule, repre- 

 sents the more intelligent and progressive farmers of the 



