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HOW TO BUr AND HOW TO SELL. 
THE VALUE OF GOOD CARE, ESTIMATING WEIGHT. ESTIMATING BY MEA3- 
CKEMENT. BUYING TO FEED. IIOW TO BUY BREEDERS. WHERE GOOD 
BEEF LIES. — BUYING FEEDING STOCK. ANALYZING THE CARCASS. <" 
PROPER SHAPE OF WELL-BRED FATTENING STOCK. HOW TO BOY. BUY- 
ING M1LCII COWS. BUYING DAIRY MILKBRS. MILK MIRRORS. TUB 
TRUE VALUE OF JIILK MIRRORS. VALUE OF ESCUTCHEON MARKS.— MILK- 
ERS IN ,}.LL BREEDS. HEREDITY. DIGESTION. RESPIRATION. SYM- 
METRY. 
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The Value of Good Care. 
There nre very many farmers who, by care and attention to details in 
feeding their stock, and bv kindly treatment, have done so with profit to 
themselves. They have raised them from calfhood. Let them under- 
take to buy cattle for feeding their surplus grain and fodder, and they 
are very apt to overrate the weight and true value of the cattle purchased. 
Ohe point should always be kept steadily in mind : Never buy an old 
steer or cow for fattening. They never repay the cost and trouble they 
give. Thin cattle, ready for grass, if healthy, may give good returns on 
flush Summer pasture, if bought at the price per pound that you expect 
to get in the Fall. You will not only get the price of the flesh put on, 
but the cattle being thin and the muscles dry, your profits will be added 
to in the fluids absorbed, and the loss will lie with the former owner in 
making mere frames to be built upon. So animals bought in the Fall in 
common grass flesh, will increase wonderfully with good feeding and 
shelter. If you buy at $2.50 per 100 lbs., and so add 200 lbs. in flesh, 
and sell at $4 per 100 lbs., you not only get $8 for the flesh put on, but 
the difference between $2.50 and $4, or $1.50 per 100 lbs. on the orig- 
inal weight. That is, you buy steers at 1,000 lbs. each, feed 50 bushels 
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