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for should one of them inadvertently become bogged 

 in a "muskeg," after the frost has left the ground 

 soft, she would quickly succumb, if prompt assist- 

 ance were not at hand. 



Use every possible precaution against two-year- 

 old heifers getting in calf, unless you wish to lose 

 them. Provide a separate field for them, if you 

 cannot have them herded. But they must be kept 

 from the bulls at all costs, as, if the slightest degree 

 weakly, they are almost sure to die during calving, 

 and it is never worth running the risk. 



Experiments have been tried, and have answered 

 very well in the case of those men who have been 

 able to put up suf&cient hay for the purpose, in 

 specially feeding those animals which are all but 

 ready for beef throughout the winter, so that a 

 shipment can be made of some twenty-five to fifty 

 or so of them by the late spring or early summer. 

 The steers that would fetch 3i to 3J cents a pound 

 in the autumn, with a live weight of, say, 1,150 

 pounds, would realize to their owners a little over 

 $40 per head. Should an additional 200 pounds 

 be gained through winter feeding on good hay, there 

 is every prospect of a rancher making a nice little 

 profit of $64 a head in the earlier season of the year, 

 when beef is fetching 4| to 4i cents a pound. 

 The average price of beeves in the autumn, when 



