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the central aud eastern parts of the State, who desire to feed cattle, 

 will have to depend on the purchase of their feeders from other sec- 

 tions. The mountain sections of our State are well adapted to the 

 production of feeders and stockers, but it is a pity that more attention 

 is not given to the introduction of high-class, pure-bred sires, and a 

 little better care and more feed given the young cattle during the 

 winter. Of course, in some sections a few pure-bred sires are used, 

 but by far too many grade bulls are in use to insure a certain and 

 rapid improvement of the quality of the feeders produced. J^othing 

 but pure-bred sires should be used on gTade cows. No grade is good 

 enough for this purpose, because his breeding is not sufficiently pure 

 and fixed to enable him to stamp his good form on his progeny, when 

 he is bred to grade cows, with the same admixture of scrub blood, or 

 on native cows of no particular breeding. 



FEEDS AVAILABLE. 



Of course, a large number of feeds may be purchased, but the prices 

 of most of these prevent their use in profitable beef cattle feeding. 

 Moreover, the object should be to produce on the farm, in so far as 

 it is practicable, all the feeds to be used in the feeding of the cattle. 

 In short, the feeds to be used, whether they be produced on the farm or 

 purchased, must be obtained at a cost which will permit of their use 

 under the ruling prices for feeders and .finished cattle. Bearing these 

 limitations in mind, what are the feeding-stuffs available for profitable 

 beef cattle feeding in North Carolina ? 



It must be apparent that the long forage or roughage should be 

 produced on the farm, for in the production of such feeding-stuffs 

 the South should excel, because of the long growing season and the 

 resulting opportunity for the production of two crops on the same land 

 during one season. 



Of the feeds which, it seems to the writer, are certainly available 

 for the purpose of beef cattle feeding, the following constitute practi- 

 cally the entire list: 



ROUGHAGE, 



Corn stover (shredded). 

 Silage. 



CONCENTRATES. 



Cotton seed. 



Cotton-seed meal. 



To the rough feeds named may, under certain conditions, be added 

 the following: 



Cotton-seed hulls, 



Peavine, sorghum, and other home-grown hays. 



To the concentrates named it may be profitable in certain cases to 

 add a small quantity of corn, or corn and cob meal, but this is ex- 

 tremely doubtful. 



