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CHANGE 

 GRASS-FED 

 TO GRAIN- 

 FED 



FEEDS TO 

 BE USED 



corn-fed in October and early November. Cattle 

 from some mountain ranges, like those of North 

 Park, Colorado, are of such quality that they go 

 as grain-fed and their beef is sold as corn-fed 

 beef. It is not easy to produce corn-fattened 

 beef in the hot sultry weather of the Mississippi 

 valley or the eastern states in late summer. 



With our high altitudes and dry, nippy air, 

 even in summer, where shade is provided, and 

 by the use of some of our less heating, fattening 

 grains, the farmer would be able to take range 

 feeders and reclassify them in from three to four 

 months by grain feeding. 



It would be convenient to get feeder steers at 

 the time of the July roundups when rangemen 

 brand their calves, and may be induced to sell 

 their best-conditioned grass-fed beaves. Cattle 

 are usually in good grass condition at this time 

 and they could be put on a western grain ration 

 by the middle of July or first of August. A 

 short feeding period would be sufficient to make 

 them grain fed. If young steers or baby beef 

 are fed they could use a comparatively narrow 

 ration. 



The first crop of alfalfa is usually in the 

 stack as early as the first of July. At our lower 

 altitudes Canada field peas, which are planted 

 early, may be ripened and harvested by the first 



