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can be sold on the farui to stock at a profit for their production, it 

 is all that we can expect and is fairly satisfactory. Whether these 

 crops should be disposed of to sheep, horses, cows or direct to the 

 markets, rather than to steers for beef, or whether we should re- 

 place the fertility essential to maintain crop sales, involves other 

 questions. I am confident that the good breeder and feeder will 

 secure his plant food for crop growth cheaper by beef production 

 than in the form of purchased fertilizers. I hold that at current 

 rates for the best beef, or even for a slightly reduced rate, up to 

 1,200 pounds weight properly bred and fed, beef making will af- 

 ford a fair market for our crops, and the good steer a debatable 

 competitor of other live stock. 



I have based my conclusions in the main on a voluminous 

 amount of scientific and practical data that I find it impracticable 

 to quote in a brief paper of this kind. 



