CATTLE, JUND TREATMENT. 
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fork, nor beatings with the handle, or kicks, because they happen to 
within reach of some brutal feeder. The inference is that the humane 
man is apt to have humane help ; the brutal stock man will have brutal 
help, and the stock will be very apt to partake of the character of their 
master. 
As between woll and ill-kept Stock. 
Aside from some wealthy professional men, having suburban farms, 
stock is kept solely for the profit it will bring. The stock of amateurs 
are not only carefully housed and fed, but they are kept at the height of 
perfection, so far as costly appointments and careful grooming is con- 
cerned. The practical man arrives at the same results in a different and 
cheaper way, but none the less certainly. His shelters may be of the 
most homely kind, even made with poles and slough hay, but are warm 
and comfortable. He cannot afford iron mangers and water pipes through 
his stables, but his troughs are tight and solidly built, and his animals are 
regularly fed and watered. He will not have blankets in winter and 
sheets in summer, but his animals will be well and carefully fed, and 
sheltered from the earliest ago until ready for sale. 
The humane man will get ten dollars more for a cow because she will 
be gentle and well trained to give down her milk without resistance. His 
steers will bring from one to two cents per pound extra in market, for 
the reason that the constant care given them will have resulted in extra 
Weight and condition. Let us sec what two cents per pound amounts to. 
His steer of a given age, say three years, is fed from birth so that it has 
never fallen in condition, but has constantly gained, and will "weigh from 
1300 to 1600 pounds, according to the breed. The steer of the man who 
does not believe in feeding nor properly treating his animals, will weigh 
off of grass 900 or 1000 pounds. The good fecd'r will get five-and-a- 
half cents per pound gross weight, or $71.50 for the - 0C lb. steer, and $88 
for the heavier one. The poor feeder will get, say three cc per pound, 
or $27 to $30. One may see this every day of the year at ‘he stock-yards 
of our western cities. It does not cost $20 more to make the good steer 
than the poor one ; so the enhanced profits aro nearly $25 in the one caso 
and $48 in the other ; in other words, the good and humane feeder gets 
the enhanced price on the poor feeder’s 1000 pounds, and ouw.iathe hao 
put on besides by his considerate care and constant good feeding, ho 
have partially shown this in another part of the work, in alluding to tho 
daily animal waste. That is an integer. This animal waste may be pro- 
duced excessively, whatever the system of feeding, if animals are sub- 
jected to frights and bruises, as well as by exposure to storms and lack 
of sufficient food. 
