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BULLETIN 397, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the dam is of a milking strain, considerable additional revenue may 

 be obtained from the sale of dairy products after the calf is sold. 

 This suggestion is made not that this type of farming is more profit- 



FiG. 16.— Polled Durham breeding stock in Tazewell County, Va. The quality of the grazing 

 stock is maintained by the distribution of pure-bred bulls in the localities where the stockers are 

 produced. 



able than dairying, for it is not, but because it requires far less efficient 

 labor than dairying and offers a means of utilizing a vast acreage of 

 gulhed hills which at present is waste land. 



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