CHAPTER VL 
BENEFITS OF KIND AND CAREFUL TREATMENT. 
VZBBTNG FOR PROFIT AS BETWEEN WELL AND ILL KEPT STOCK.- HEAVY WEIGHTS.—— 
PROFIT IN EARLY MATURITY. .MAKE BEEF YOUNG. BABY BEEl'. FEEDING 5 gpST 
IN ENGLAND. SUMMER FEEDING. ANIMAL WASTE. ANIMAL HEAT. ADVAN- 
TAGES OF SUMMER AND WINTER FEEDING. 
Feeding for Profit. .... , 
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It should require no argument to show the benefits of kind and consid- 
erate treatment in the rearing of live stock of any kind, and in the treat- 
ment after they become mature. One reason why so many persons fail 
to be successful in fattening stock is that they do not use due considera- 
tion in their treatment. The man who kicks and clubs his stock, 'fir 
allows his hired help to do so, never yet produced a prize steer, and never 
will. Obesity and activity do not go together, neither will undue excita- 
bility allow of a steady increase in fat. Hence the feeder, for the sake 
of his pocket, should see that fattening cattle are kept entirely quiet. To 
insure this the sagacious breeder avoids not only cattle naturally irritable, 
but those raised by persons of known bad or brutal temper. We have 
known a stable of cattle thrown off their feed for days by a sudden fright. 
Those frights are quite apt to occur from the slightest causes. .Where- 
strange cattle, raised half-wild, are confined together — and this is not 
rare among stock that have been picked up indiscriminately, and what 
are known as woods or prairie cattle — the first effort of the sagacious 
feeder is to get the confidence of the stock. This is only accomplished 
by gentleness,, not by any means inconsistent with firmness. The cattle 
must know and obey their master. Their knowledge of him must be that 
they receive food and kind treatment at his bauds, and not stabs with, tha 
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