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practice among feeders as to their manner of approach- 

 ing fattening steers. Some are brusque in manner, rush- 

 ing up to the steers and scaring them up quickly, while 

 other (and I am bound to say more successful) feeders 

 approach the cattle with the greatest care and consid- 

 eration, getting the cattle up, if at all, as quietly as pos- 

 sible. Pastures for cattle in quiet, secluded places are 

 more valuable for fattening cattle than are those adja- 

 cent to public roads or adjoining pastures where horses 

 or breeding cattle run. 



A FLY PREVENTIVE 



Flies are a great drawback to successful summer 

 feeding. Fattening cattle may be partially protected 

 from them by furnishing the cattle with a cool, dark 

 shed to run in during the heat of the day, the doorway 

 to which is provided with strips of burlap hung at the 

 top of the doorway and extending low enough to strike 

 the backs of the cattle as they pass into the shed. The 

 painting of these sheds white is recommended by some 

 practical feeders as one means of making them more 

 cool than they would be were the exterior painted red, 

 or some other dark color, or not painted at all. 



GROOMING 



Grooming of fattening cattle is a practice of doubtful 

 advisability. It has been practiced only to a limited 

 extent, and then usually with show cattle. To the 

 writer's knowledge, some cattle feeders advocate and 

 practice, with apparently good results, the tacking up 

 of grooming cards in convenient places about the feed 

 lot where the cattle perform their own grooming in a 

 more or less crude fashion. It is only necessary for the 

 cattle feeder to tack up a few of these cards to become 

 convinced that the cattle will use and enjoy them. 



NUMBER OF TIMES A DAY TO FEED 

 The majority of cattle feeders prefer feeding their 

 cattle grain and roughage twice a day in winter and 



