Excerpt from Beef Production
More extensive operations in cattle feeding can con sistently be urged upon farmers in general from the standpoint of maintaining or improving the fertility of the soil. It may be argued that other classes of live stock, horses, sheep, and hogs, may be fed with greater profit. This may be granted where conditions are especially favorable to these interests, but it must be admitted that it is difficult, if not indeed impracticable, to keep sufficient hogs to furnish the desired amount Of fertilizer. Then, again, cattle consume certain by products Of the farm that are difficult to convert into pork or bacon, mutton, or horse flesh. The feeding of cattle with hogs as an adjunct seems a logical solution to the conversion of farm products into cash meat prod ucts, furnishing at the same time a valuable machine for the manufacture of farm yard manure. Cattle feeding does not necessarily mean the exclusion of other classes of live stock on the farm.
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