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and from the utilization of food that Avould otherwise 

 have been wasted. 



The essentials to the highest profit in producing beef 

 in Alabama are : 



(1) The use of thoroiighhred bulls of the beef breeds, 

 and, as soon as practicable, of dams having some beef 

 blood ; 



( 2 ) Abiuidance of good pastures ; 



(3) Economical production on the farm of cowpea, 

 sorghum, and other hay, and other foods needed in win- 

 tering cattle; 



(4) Intrusting the care of cattle to men who have 

 studied the business both of crop production and of 

 feeding; 



(5) Increased attention to marketing, including the 

 raising of sucli numbers of beeves and of such quality as 

 will be worth shipping in carload lots to the best mar- 

 kets North or South; equitable freight rates; increased 

 appreciation on the part of local butchers of the super- 

 ior value of well bred and well fattened beeves ; and co- 

 operation in selling and shipping. 



Health of the Steers. 



This was good throughout the experiment, with the 

 exception of an occasional case of scouring. The 

 conclusion was drawn that for these particular lots of 

 steers fed the specified kinds of roughness ad lihitum it 

 is not safe to feed more than 7.5 pounds of cotton seed 

 meal per day per steer to steers fed as those in Lot I, 

 nor more than 7.8 pounds of raw cotton seed to 

 Lot II, nor more than 7.5 pounds of raw cotton seed to 

 Lot III, nor more than 6.9 pounds of raw cotton seed 

 to Lot IV, which also received corn stover. Although 

 corn stover is considered as constipating, jet cotton 



