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made and at less cost, especially where hay is relatively low 

 and corn high in price. 



9. From a commercial point of vieAv the results of this en- 

 tire series of experiments go to show that cattle feeding can 

 be made profitable when discretion is used in the selection of 

 foods for the ration. On the average farm in Nebraska where 

 grain and hay command figures below Lincoln prices and 

 where cattle are undisturbed by frequent weighings which 

 experimental feeding necessitates, the profits can be made 

 much greater than those reported in this bulletin. Good feed- 

 ing will make our corn bring more as beef than when sold 

 direct to the elevator companies even tho the selling price of 

 finished cattle is not far in advance of cost price as was true 

 in many of these experiments. The importance of manure 

 and the growing of alfalfa and clover as agencies contribut- 

 ing to the maintenance and increase of land fertility argue 

 further for this mode of selling a larger part of our annual 

 corn crop. The cattle industry deserves much greater atten- 

 tion in this State than has been given it in the past. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



Acknowledgment is here made to Mr. Joseph F. Lamb, Ex- 

 perimental Feeder in the Department, for his care and pre- 

 cision in weighing and feeding all rations, and to A. F. Mag- 

 danz, Jr., and C. W. Eine for valuable assistance in compiling 

 tables. 



