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FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



several weeks of feeding. By spring these calves, 

 now yearlings, should weigh from 800 to 1,000 

 pounds and be in such good flesh that they may be 

 marketed in a very short time after being put on 

 a finishing ration. If finished at once, the roughage 

 will be decreased and concentrates proportionally 



HERD OF ANGUS IN MIDDLE WEST 



Beef raising has long been popular in the middle west, where corn, alfalfa, 

 clover and other beef-growing crops flourish so abundantly. 



increased, but consisting of the same or similar feed- 

 ing stuffs as previously fed. 



Baby Beeves Finished on Grass. In case pasture 

 is abundant the grain can be fed less heavily dur- 

 ing winter and the finishing of the calves ended a 

 few weeks later on grass. Less grain will be re- 

 quired under this plan during the winter. On grass, 



