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The work of the Station has clearly demonstrated that, under 

 the conditions prevailing during the past winter (lOUO-lUj, beef 

 cattle bought upon the open niarkei, ted intelligently, have paid 

 market price for all the roughage consumed in addition to one (Ij 

 dollar per bushel, for the corn. This does not include the value of 

 the manure nor the amount of waste feed utilized by hogs. While 

 the price of beef was exceptionally high during the past year, the 

 same was true of "feeders" and of feeds, so that the results are not 

 abnormal. 



In closing, I might say that the function of Beef Cattle in Penn- 

 sylvania is to utilize large amounts of roughage, to enable the 

 farmer to carry a large amount of livestock in proportion to the 

 labor required, to turn to profitable account large areas of rough 

 grazing land that is at present not under cultivation, to furnish a 

 market for the damaged and unmarketable material produced on 

 practically every farm and at the same time build up the soil in 

 order that it may continue to produce maximum crops. If the 

 farmer will go into the production of beef in a conservative way, 

 selecting cattle of the proper type, he will undoubtedly, in a series of 

 years, be in much better financial condition than one who markets 

 his crops in their original state. 



ADDRESS 



By E. S. BAYARD, Pittsburg, Pa. 



You know what I told last year, you can't keep a good man from 

 "coming out at the top." 



I am very much interested in this discussion on beef cattle and 

 I think that is the reason INh*. Black called upon me, because he is 

 a beef cattle man and he wanted to prolong this discussion. 



The CHAIRMAN: We don't want any other subject introduced. 



MR. BAYARD: I will try to keep on this subject. There is one 

 thing I want to emphasize and that is in regard to our markets in 

 Pennsylvania. We have a peculiar market here in our coal and 

 manufacturing towns. It requires ordinary or half-fat cattle. I 

 have come to the conclusion that it will pay a man to buy in the 

 fall common cattle, the kind he can buy cheap, and feed them for 

 this market. When you come to breed cattle, breed the best you can. 

 But the man who feeds cattle can profit by the other fellow's folly. 

 The cheaper he buys them the better for him, because he can often 

 make a greater improvement in value on the common steer than on 

 the other kind, especially if he does not carry him to a finish. Take 

 a common steer in the fall and when he has more flesh he goes up 

 a notch in the market classification. These cattle, to be sold be- 

 fore they are fat, can use a cheaper class of fed than the good cattle. 

 They lack breeding of course and when marketed make ordinary 

 butcher cattle. They sell comparatively high because of the pecu- 

 liarity of our market that does not require so much fat. The country 



