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each. There is a great advantage having the best breeds of horses, 
sheep, cattle, hogs, or other stock. A good three-year-old steer, half 
short-horn, is worth double as much as one of your Wood’s breeds, 
of the same age. I have a brother who sold a car-load of two-year- 
olds, a short time ago, for $70 a head. A common scrub-breed 
would not have brought over $35. I want to impress on farmers 
that they must improve their stock of every kind and take good 
care of it. 
Mr. Boyce: Mr. Lysaght’s stock is all of the improved breeds. 
It would do an} r farmer in this community good to go and examine 
this stock. He has now five or six two-year olds that he told me 
he was offered $200 apiece for, and yearlings of nearly equal value. 
Going over there has stimulated me. I do not like to see my 
neighbors have anything better than I have, consequently I have 
tried to follow suit. In a little while I expect to be with a few 
where he is with many. I would state Mr. Lysaght feeds, from the 
time they are dropped until he sells them, about all they would eat. 
I presume he makes more money than any man, or any ten men, 
within twenty miles of here, by farming. He tells me he makes more 
money than he did during the war. I was well satisfied then, but 
since that time I have failed to satisfy myself that I was getting 
paid for my labor. If we can raise a steer, which at three years 
old will bring $100, then I think we can get pay for our work. 
He sold a car-load last spring, a year ago, which averaged $115 a 
head; none of them over three years old. He showed me, a few 
days ago, a colt, less than seven months old, which weighed eight 
hundred and eighty pounds. It was three-fourths Clydesdale. He 
said he would not thank a man to offer him less than $200 for 
the colt. I can keep a colt and keep him well for $5 a year. 
Colonel Warner: That was a statement, I think, made in a pa¬ 
per last year. Of course, Lysaght’s style of farming is first-rate and 
what we aspire to. My paper was not to help that class of farm¬ 
ers, but to help those who are low down. This man (the deacon) 
I spoke of was surrounded by no influence but what any man on 
a prairie-farm has. By adopting this method, if he attends to his 
business, he can raise stock and sell it for more than cost. I do 
not consider this the highest or best model, but one for a great 
many persons to imitate with success to themselves. 
Mr. Roberts: The interesting paper that we have listened to 
