THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLExVIAN 



win be well to remember that the older the ani- 

 mals, the more grain will be required to fatten 

 them. The price of young feeders ranges be- 

 tween twenty-seven dollars and thirty-five dol- 

 lars delivered at the purchaser's station. The 

 cost of feeding will be about fifteen dollars a 

 head for grain during the winter. From this 

 should be deducted the value of the manure 

 voided by the animals, which will be about five 

 tons each during the time they are in the 

 yards. Such manure is worth at least two 

 dollars a ton. Cattle of this grade are usually 

 sold on the hoof when fat, for export, and 

 fetch between fifty-five dollars and sixty-five dol- 

 lars each in the barn. 



The wisest way, however, for a novice to 

 start in this business would be to purchase from 

 a reliable breeder, say three heifer calves and 

 a bull calf of either the Hereford or Aberdeen- 

 Angus breed, and raise them to start a herd. 

 The bull calf should be unrelated to the heifers. 

 When the latter are t^^ent}' to twenty-six months 

 old, they should be bred for the first time. All 

 the females should be raised to increase the 



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