PROGRESSIVE BEEF CATTLE RAISING 



One means whereby this low per- 

 Community centage of purebred animals can 



Breeding be more efficiently utilized is through 



the system of community or circuit 

 breeding. If the farmers of a community organize to 

 use one breed and exchange the sires either under a 

 system of community ownership or by private sale to 

 one another, additional years of service may be gotten 

 out of high-class breeding bulls whose usefulness due to 

 relationship to the females of the herd may be outlived 

 in two or three years. Furthermore, the concentration 

 of good cattle in a community will attract large numbers 

 of purebred buyers and will give the market cattle shipped 

 from the district a reputation among shippers and killers. 

 Waukesha County, Wis., and Gage County, Neb., are 

 well known examples of the advantage of co-operation 

 between neighboring breeders. 



While supporters of the different 

 The breeds of cattle try to claim all the 



Distribution good things in the beef category for 



of the Breeds their favorite breeds, the bulk of live- 

 stock men have a feeling that it is not 

 a question of breed merit for beef production but of the 

 merit of the individual bull, cow or steer. Nevertheless 

 the average run of the different breeds finds them defi- 

 nitely adapted to certain types of farming and certain 

 general conditions, although no breed can be considered 

 exclusively to monopolize a certain region or a certain 

 function. For example: the Hereford is particularly 

 well adapted to the range country because of its ability 

 to fatten on grass; the Shorthorn is well adapted to 

 general farming because of its size, ready fattening and 

 milking qualities; the Aberdeen-Angus is especially well 

 adapted to cornbelt feed lots and baby beef production 

 because of its early maturity and most excellent carcass 

 qualities; the Red Poll, to the central west because of its 



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