We need to organize so that we
can handle our products on a busi
ness basis. To illustrate. Take the
Farmers' club in Meeker county. One
of the things it is doing is to develop
a livestock shipping association. They
shipped a small amount of stock the
first year and have gradually grown
until last year they handled $117,000
of livestock. One man sold out of
that community, the representative
foreman, $117,000. And it actually
cost the farmers in that community
for this one man's ;wages, a little bit
over one per cent., or something less
than $1,200 annually for handling
that whole $117,000 worth of business
Live Stock and Fertility.
1t is not impossible to build up a
-.°orn farm without making live stock
raising a feature, but it is a great
deal easier to do it with live stock,
and, we think, unquestionably more
profitable, says Farm and Ranch.
Live stock raising requires a diversi
fled system of crops, especially of le
gumes, which greatly assist in restor
ing the land in nitrogen, the element
most likely to be needed; the animals
consume the feed raised on the farm
and reduce the loss in fertility ele.
ments by returning to the boil the
manure from animals.
Discard Poor Poultry.
If there are good reasons for reduc
ing poultry stock, the following is
recommended: Reduce by discarding
all inferior, unthrifty and aged speci
mens. Dispose of surplus male birds.
These eat food and give no return;
They also occupy space which should
be occupied, by profit-making pullets
Keep one breed and specialize.
Economy in Liberal Feeding.
