The Camperdown Chronicle 13 Feb 1913

LIVESTOCK MAKES AGRICULTURE PERMANENT.

Every true farmer desires to follow a system of agriculture that will not only keep up the fertility 
of the land but, where possible, improve it. There are ways of keeping the farm up to it's original 
fertility without livestock, but it is far easier, more productive and more profitable when livestock 
is kept. Livestock not only belongs on every farm for the beneficial effect it has upon the soil, but 
because it brings forth a greater demand for knowledge and understanding which in itself is attractive 
and interesting. Furthermore, livestock gives an opportunity to feed a large amount of material which 
would be wasted so far as food for humanity is concerned. Professor Geo. C. Humphrey in speaking of 
livestock and permanent agriculture says: "There must be a permanent agriculture if people are to 
continue to increase in number and strength, and live in a fair degree of prosperity. Livestock farming, 
by virtue of its offering a home market for farm grown crops, paying higher prices for them than is 
ordinarily paid, and retaining and putting back manure on to the land, tends to make agriculture more 
permanent than any other system of farming generally practiced." The truth of this statement was well 
expressed by an Englishman who wrote, "An husband cannot well thrive by his corn without we have other 
cattle, nor by his cattle with out corn for else he shall be a buyer, a borrower, or a beggar." 

"Men are often times found who are prejudiced against or indifferent to live-stock farming for the 
reason that it necessitates their acquiring a knowledge of the art of successfully breeding and handling 
animals. The system of growing and marketing hay and grain appeals to them more strongly, even though 
they or their sons sooner or later are forced to become the predicted buyers of new farms, borrowers 
of money, perhaps to the extent of mortgaging their farms or to go begging for some other occupation."

 - Stanley Portal Hyatt