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cheapest feeds in the market if properly balanced with 

 other feeds, at the same cost as her northern neighbors 

 minns their extra cost of freight. As for her markets, 

 with Louisville or Cincinnati within comparatively short 

 reach of any section of the State, and the largest cattle 

 markets of the world such as Chicago, not so far distant, 

 the matter of marketing the finished animals is solved 

 most satisfactorily for the feeder. With practical eradi- 

 cation of the cattle tick (the indirect cause of Texas 

 fever) throughout large sections of the southern states, 

 has come the impetus for the breeders to introduce pure 

 bred bulls with which to grade up their cattle, a measure 

 which means that eventually well bred steers in the 

 South will find their way to the Louisville and other 

 nearby markets to be purchased and finished by the Ken- 

 tucky farmer, thus, ia a measure, enabling him to raise 

 the matter of beef production to as high a level as that 

 enjoyed by other branches of the live stock industry. 

 Then, too, on account of the high price of feeders, the 

 time has come when it is profitable for the Kentucky 

 farmer, even on high-priced lands, to raise some of his 

 own steers. This is particularly true of the mountain 

 and hill regions of the State. Much of this land should 

 never be plowed on account of the washing of the soil, 

 but be devoted to the production of live stock. 



For some time past, the markets have not been look- 

 ing for large beeves. This is due to the fact that smaller 

 cuts of beef are more sought after by the housewife noAV 

 than formerly. The writer saw 750-pound baby beeves 

 top the Cincinnati market last May. These steers were 

 well bred, had plenty of quality and were fat. Steers 

 that have the quality to grade as baby beeves are the 

 only kind the Kentucky farmer should raise. I do not 

 mean by this statement that it is the only kind he should 

 buy and feed, for the profit in finishing cattle depends 

 largely on how cheaply certain, grades can be purchased, 

 and how well they can be sold. However, no one can af- 

 ford to breed inferior steers, and that means the elimina- 

 tion of the scrub sire. Professor Mumford, of the Il- 

 linois Experiment Station, has determined that the use 

 of a pure bred sire will raise the quality of a steer two 

 grades. There being a usual difference of 35 eeiits per 



