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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



the answers to a question submitted to a large number of our most 

 successful professional feeders sometime ago. The question put to 

 them was: "What roughness do you prefer during the fattening 

 period, and do you allow the steers to have all of it they will eat?" 

 In the following summary of their answers, the most impressive 

 fact is the great variety of opinions there expressed. Every kind of 

 roughness produced on the farm, from the husks on snapped corn 

 alone to the best quality of clover or alfalfa hay, fed to the full 

 limit of the appetite of the animal, is included. Altogether 416 

 answers were returned, representing forty-two counties in the 

 State. It is interesting to observe that their preferences were as 

 follows : 



KIND OF ROUGHNESS PREFERRED BY THE PRACTICAL FEEDER. 



One would be forced to conclude, from these results, that in 

 the judgment of the professional feeder the roughness in full feed- 

 ing exerts very little influence upon the result, and is in reality a 

 matter of comparatively little importance. 



