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Dean Division Agriculture, Iowa State
College.
The farmers of Iowa will do well to give special attention to the Importance of live stock as a permanent feature of successful agriculture. The old Scotch maxim, "Market the products of the farm on foot rather than In the bag,"' cannot be Ignored without sooner or later paying the penalty of declining fertility. It is contended by some that soil fertility can be maintained without live stock. This may even look plausible In theory, but we hve no record of any considerable area where a productive soil has been maintained without live stock, it is not likely that the Mississippi valley will prove an exception to the rule. We have depleted our soil too long already by exporting grain and the byproducts of our mills. All of these by-products and a much larger share of the grain ought to be converted into meat and dairy products on the farms of the United States, instead of going to enrich the farms of foreign countries to the detriment of our own.
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