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crop has saved many a cow from starvation and made 

 cattle-raising possible where otherwise there would be 

 only the jack-rabbit. Toward the Mexican line the 

 sorghums play much the same part as rye farther north. 

 The quality of the hay makes much less difference in 

 wintering stock cattle than in fattening steers, and the 

 hay that a fattening steer would not touch will pull a 

 thin cow through the winter in good condition. 



