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the fact that the distillers' grains or slop has attained great popu- 

 larity as a readily transportable and highly valuable feeding stuff 

 when it is dried. Consequently, not so much of this material can 

 be obtained for feed at the distilleries. Cattle fed at distilleries 

 were in demand on the market because during the feeding period 

 the size of the internal organs was somewhat reduced, the offal 

 was decreased, and the percentage of carcass correspondingly in- 

 creased. 



FIGURE 12. GALLOWAY CALVES 

 Note the short wide heads aiid the indications of rugged constitution. 



How TO GET FEEDERS 



Raising feeders is perhaps not a profitable proposition if one 

 has only tillable, high priced land, because the land can be made 

 to pay greater financial returns by growing tilled crops than by 

 growing calves for feeders from cows that must be pastured in 

 summer and fed through the winter. The raising of feeders is 

 possible where the producer has land that is not high priced and 

 the capital invested is small. The man who attempts to raise his 

 own feeders should have a great deal of untillable land, capable 

 of producing good grass. The feeders that are raised should be 

 of good quality, and the operator should finish them at a young 

 age so as to realize on them soon. Generally speaking, it is better 



