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bought providing the quality is right. The 

 method of compounding these rations will be 

 considered later. 



The secret of success in bullock-fattening is 

 to produce the roots and straw as economically 

 as possible, as they form the bulkof the animal's 

 food. If it be found that bullock-fattening is 

 costing too much it is well to seek for the cause 

 in the methods of growing the roots and corn, 

 and not to assume the fault lies only with the 

 food rations or the prices paid and received for 

 the stock. To put it briefly, the cheaper roots 

 and corn can be fed to the bullocks the greater 

 the prospect of profit on their fattening. 



The fattening of bullocks on grass is a 

 system to which a more certain profit attaches. 

 Bullocks used for this purpose are generally 

 fattened off at a much younger age than in the 

 preceding case. They are usually winter-born 

 calves, well-fed from birth. They are bought 

 in the early summer for fattening on grass 

 supplemented with 2 to 3 lbs. of cotton cake 

 and crushed grain, or they may receive no cake, 

 and consequently are only half fat by the 

 autumn, when they are brought inside as the 

 weather gets colder, and stall-fattened for the 



