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angles and the Brown Swiss, though possessed of ample 

 size, will be somewhat overstrong in bone. Smoother 

 types should come from the Red Polls and Devons, fine 

 in bone, but they will be something less in size. 



By crossing beef sires possessed of much smooth- 

 ness and high fleshing qualities on straight dairy cows, 

 calves are obtained which make a fair quality of baby 



PURE BRED ABERDEEN ANGUS YEARLING STEER, ECLIPSER 

 (By courtesy of the owner, Minnesota Experiment Station) 



beef. This is sometimes done when the progeny of such 

 cows are to be grown for beef. Although sires from 

 any of the beef breeds may be used for such mating, 

 none of these will be found superior or probably quite 

 equal to the Aberdeen-Angus in producing progeny that 

 will show dairy characteristics in but slight degree. 

 These crosses are made only on grade females. The 

 progeny are usually made ready for the block at an age 



