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type do not require such warm barns as the milkers 

 do, because fat animals never need such warm hous- 

 ing as do lean ones. They seem to do better in dry, 

 open sheds that are well bedded. They need such 

 foods as will make them fat most quickly and at the 

 least expense, and cattle feeders know this well. 



Fig. 10. A Galloway cow. 



Getting Ready for Market. Sometimes calves are 

 fed fattening foods as soon as they can digest them. 

 They are kept on such food until they are ready for 

 the market at from ten to sixteen months of age. 

 Other cattlemen give their young herd the freedom 

 of the range or pasture for a few months, or, per- 

 haps, for a year or two, and then put them on rich, 



