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^nd are far better than commercial fertilizers, because 

 they are cheaper, and more permanently improve soil, 

 both in mechanical condition and in available plant food. 

 Feeilini; animals upon the farm and saving the liquid 

 •and solid manures gives the farmer a double use of the 

 feed stuffs produced on the farm ; because the manurial 

 products contain from GO to 90 per cent, of all the 

 fertilizing materials that were found in the feeds that 

 -were fed the animals. For example: Cotton seed hulls 

 and cotton seed meal lose but very little of their value 

 as fertilizers by feeding them to cattle, providing the 

 the liquid and solid manures coming from the animal are 

 properly saved and utilized. The cattle industry does 

 not mean that we shall not raise cotton, but that we can 

 raise as much or more cotton than Ave do now upon less 

 acreage and with less work and less expense for ferti- 

 lizers. 



During the past three years more beef-bred animals 

 liave been brought into the State of Alabama than dur- 

 ing any previous time in its history. Unfortunately, 

 some of them have been lost by acclimation or Texas 

 fever; but the larger number of them have been saved 

 by careful handling. Methods of acclimating or 

 immunizing Northern-bred or foreign-bred cattle have 

 been developed so that the dangers of acclimation have 

 been reduced to the minimum — so that it is no longer 

 unprofita])le to bring into the South highly-bred breed- 

 ing animals. 



The chief object of this bulletin is to describe the 

 methods of immunizing susceptible cattle to Texas fever, 

 and give the records that have been made at this station 

 and others by using the improved methods of immuniz- 

 ing Northern and foreign-bred cattle. 



