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it will be observed that the area where the best 

 beef is grown is co-extensive with the corn belt. 

 Statistics show that the eleven chief corn states, 

 which produce seventy-five per cent, of the corn 

 crop of the United States, produce also sixty per 

 cent, of the fine cattle, milch cows, sheep, hogs, 

 horses and mules. The importance of corn is 

 even greater than would appear from this statement, 

 since thousands of range cattle and sheep are 

 annually shipped into the corn belt for fattening. 

 Corn affords not only ear and shelled corn, corn 

 stover and silage, all of which are most excellent 

 for the production of beef, but affords also a large 

 variety of milling products including corn meal, 

 corn and cob meal, hominy chop, corn bran, corn 

 germ, corn-germ meal, various kinds of gluten 

 meal, gluten feeds, starch feed, etc. From this list 

 of feeds it is apparent that a selection may be made 

 among the many gluten meals and gluten feeds so as 

 to balance the ration with corn meal or shelled 

 corn. This is possible because of the protein in 

 corn remaining in the gluten meals and gluten feeds 

 after the starch has been removed in the process of 

 manufacture. 



Corn is thus conceded by all investigators to be 

 the best exclusive grain ration for fattening animals 

 of all kinds, considered both from the standpoint 

 of efficiency and economy. The best methods of 

 increasing the already great effectiveness of corn 

 consist in supplementing corn with some nitroge- 

 nous grain or forage. This may be done most cheaply 

 by the use of clover hay, alfalfa hay, or cowpea 

 hay in the East, West and South respectively. By 

 means of this combination of corn with nitroge- 

 nous hays a most effective ration is obtained and 

 beef is produced at the lowest psosible cost. 



