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so much field cured corn stover or wheat straw as the animal will 

 relish for a change. Good thrifty calves of the beef type should 

 be given about 12 to 16 pounds of silage and nearly all the clover 

 or cowpea hay that they will eat, with access to bright clean corn 

 stover or a straw stack. 



Fig. S. Making silage at the Agricultural College with which to winter the 

 beef herds. 



FEED AND CARE DURING THE SECOND WINTER. 



The winter care of cattle becomes simpler as the animals grow 

 older and as their capacity to utilize coarse material of low pala- 

 tability increases. Then the rate of growth in the second winter is 

 not so rapid as in the first in proportion to the size of the animal, 

 or in proportion to the ability of the animal to eat. Moreover, it 

 is perhaps not so vital to the general outcome that the upper limit 

 of the capacity to grow be reached in this second winter as it was 

 in the first. Nevertheless, well bred yearlings will respond profit- 

 ably to a system of feeding that is liberal enough to maintain good 

 gains, and yet these gains will not seriously interfere with their 

 capacity to gain at pasture the following summer. 



If these animals are to be grazed as two-year olds, they will 

 respond best, taking the whole season into consideration, to one 

 system of handling and feeding, whereas if they are to be put on 



