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requirements for this kind of cattle. Such calves are hard to 

 buy and the producer of baby beef cannot feel assured of obtain- 

 ing them season after season by purchase, but is practically 

 compelled to breed them for his own use. As breeding and 

 feeding are rather distinct lines of enterprise, and as few feeders 

 care to maintain a breeding herd, or have facilities for doing so, 

 baby beef production is much less followed than would be the 

 case if good calves were readily available. Furthermore, it has 

 been shown that only those feeders skilled in the art of finishing 

 cattle, and fully equipped to give the animals every chance, 

 can successfully produce baby beef. 



Fig. 18. Baby Beeves on Feed. 



Grade Hereford calves in the feed-lot of E. M. Cassady & Sons, Whit- 

 ing, la. 



As long as thin two- and three-year-old steers may be pur- 

 chased for feeding, there will be no marked increases in baby 

 beef production. The time is now at hand, however, when a 

 large percentage of beef cattle must not only be fed on the farms 

 of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, but bred there also. 

 As it is no longer profitable for the farmer to first grow a steer 

 and then fatten him, the growing and fattening processes must 



