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The facts are, those feeders make the most money who not only give the 
warmest shelter in Winter, with liberal feeding, but who carry their 
6tock fully up to the feeding point in Summer. W here corn is as easily 
raised as it is in the West, many of our best farmers will tell you they 
can produce an acre of corn for lees than an acre of hay. We have cul- 
tivated 65 acres to the hand in a field of 1,500 acres, and at a cost of one 
and one-third days’ work for team and man per acre, up to the time of, 
but uotr including, the husking. 
One advantage of feeding grain the year round is that you may stock 
vour pastures so fully that the grass will be kept evenly grazed, thus 
enabling you to carry more cattle in Summer on a given area of pasture, 
and enabling you to produce moro corn for Winter feeding. Another 
advantage is, the animals become fatter, and thus do not lose so much 
animal heat in Winter. Still another advantage is, you hasten maturity, 
and thus save interest on capital, insurance and other items of cost. 
These facts should bo enough to convince the sensible man of the valuo 
of high feeding in connection with shelter, aside from the animus of this 
chapter, that the humane feeder — he who treats his animals most kindly 
and feeds best— is really the one who makes the most money. 
