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scrub Avill not sell to advantage when he is offered to the- 

 butcher or packer, as his meat is of a poor quality and he 

 dresses out a low per cent of salable meat. 



The cattle upon this farm were not produced as cheaply 

 as it is possible to raise them in the South. At least two 

 farm practices can be introduced upon the averaga farm 

 which will make it possible for steers to be rai.sM much 

 cheaper than were these animals. In thi'.^ test no winter, 

 pastures were used, except the winter range. Through the 

 use of a combination of burr clover and bermuda the pas- 

 ture season can be extended at least two months in the 

 year. The farmer who lives as far south as Greenville, 

 Alabama, can have a grazing pasture the year through by 

 the use of bermuda, burr clover and velvet beans. In the 

 second place, the cattle were infested with the Texas tick, 

 which reduced their average size no small amount. It is 

 impossible to state just how much the tick retards the 

 growth of a steer, but there were several severe cases of 

 tick fever reported. Some of these cases died, and some of 

 them lived, but when they did live they never attaire I 

 anything near their normal size. Through the efforts i)f 

 both the Southern States and the Federal Governmenl the 

 tick is now being exterminated; when the tick is eiliminat.-l, 

 the farmer can expect to raise larger cattle than formerly,, 

 and. too, the death rate will be materially decreased. 



