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bread and butter with me, so every cow had to 

 make good. The cows of breeding age will care 

 for themselves if given half a chance. We always 

 aim to care well for the younger ones. Our cows 

 are all run on grass in summer and those giving 

 milk or heavy in calf are housed in winter. We 

 feed nice clean oat straw in connection with silage 

 for winter roughness. The young calves and year- 

 lings are always run in paddocks around the bam 

 where they get their feed. We always keep our 

 calves separate from their dams. They are suckled 

 in barns or yards. Our yearling heifers and short 

 two-year-olds are left to run in open sheds in winter 

 and are fed their silage and hay in racks. We 

 breed everything at the halter and never breed a 

 heifer younger than nineteen months. Our young 

 bull calves are separated from the heifer calves at 

 about four months old. We try and grow theni all 

 alike, giving them all an equally good chance to make 

 good. Our herd bulls are housed in winter and 

 grained daily the year around, except for only a 

 few months in summer when grass is good their 

 grain may be shut off. They have boxstalls to run 

 in when in the bams. 



"In regard to the 'doubling in' of blood in the 

 breeding of cattle, I am very much opposed to the 

 practice as a general proposition. I know that in 

 some cases it has brought good ones, but we some- 

 times forget to mention the cases where it has 

 failed. I may add that the cattle business has been 

 a success with me thus far, and I believe that the 

 beef cow is as sound an investment as a farmer can 

 make." 



Bluegrass Management. — ^Luce & Moxley, Shelby- 

 ville, Ky., of Prince Eupert fame, figure prominently 

 in the showyard annals of recent years in all the 



