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Rh live-stock business was well understood and carefully studied even then. The preface to a volume of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, published in 1523, is curiously similar to the publications the excellent agricultural colleges are now sending to the farmer, for it says: “An housbande cannot well thryve by his corne, without he have other cattell, nor by his cattell without corne. An because that shepe, in myne opinion, is the most profitablest cattell that any man can have, therefore I purpose to speake fyrst of shepe.” This is sound advice to-day, except that the great “American Hog” is not mentioned, and he is really more important to the modem American farmer than sheep.

Some phases of the present agricultural situation in the United States give reason to hope that the movement to make farming more than ever a business, conducted along scientific business lines, will develop great headway during the next decade. In the twenty years ending in 1910 the population of the United States increased about one third, Rh