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9. Scrub steers do not respond readil}^ to the use of good feeds, 

 and even when well finished do not command satisfactory prices in 

 competition with well-bred cattle similarly finished. On the other 

 hand, good grade or pure-bred beef cattle make better use of their 

 feeds, finish more rapidly, and alwaj^s bring more on the market than 

 scrub cattle of the same weight. The better the quality of the steers 

 the safer it is to feed them high-priced feeds. 



10. For a farmer who has roughages such as silage, hay, straw, 

 stover, cottonseed hulls, or stalk feeds, and contemplates fattening 

 steers on summer pasture, it is usually better to purchase the steers 

 in the fall, and winter them on the roughages and a little cottonseed 

 meal than it is to purchase them in the spring for fattening during 

 the grazing season. 



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