. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE PLACE OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL IN OUR CIVILIZATION 13 price of hay and grain may cause a loss instead of a gain from feeding. Many illustrations of this fact could be quoted. For example, in 1S90 a de- crease of about 30 per cent in the yield of grain caused an increase in the price of over 50 per cent, so that if the whole crop could have been sold it would have brought more than the crop of the pre- vious year. Facts like these have frequently caused people to assert that, although society suf- fered, the farmers were benefit
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE PLACE OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL IN OUR CIVILIZATION 13 price of hay and grain may cause a loss instead of a gain from feeding. Many illustrations of this fact could be quoted. For example, in 1S90 a de- crease of about 30 per cent in the yield of grain caused an increase in the price of over 50 per cent, so that if the whole crop could have been sold it would have brought more than the crop of the pre- vious year. Facts like these have frequently caused people to assert that, although society suf- fered, the farmers were benefited by a short crop. Fortunately, this is not the fact, because only about 20 per cent of the corn is sold by farmers, and when there was a decrease of 30 per cent many farmers not only had no corn to sell but they either had to purchase corn or use other crops, such as oats, which they would otherwise have sold. weighing 125 to 250 pounds, followed three steers or heifers on a two-acre pasture. The cattle were fed shelled corn liberally but the pigs were given none. The pigs made a gain of a little more than a half pound per day, and when subsequently put on full feed made in one trial a gain of nearly seven- teen pounds for one bushel of corn, while in general about eleven pounds of pork are produced from a bushel of shelled corn. Second, swine are noted for their prolificacy. Ten sows, worth $100 to $150, are sufficient to produce 100 pigs ; 75 to 80 ewes, worth $300 to $500, will be required to produce an equal number of lambs ; 110 cows, worth $4,500 to $5,500, to produce 100 calves ; and 200 mares, worth $20,000 to $30,000, to produce 100 foals. To put it in another way, the capital invested in. Fig. 16. Simmenthaler oxen. The best draft type of cattle. (c) Cost of producing live-stock.—In estimating the amount of food required to carry live-stock through the year for the purpose of determining what part of a crop may be sold, twenty-five pounds of dry matter per day may
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