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$342.68. One other bunch of steers cost as feeders $556.20, and I 
kept them on feed 150 days, on hulls, cotton seed meal, and hay, 
which cost me $245..42; this drove brough $8.00 per cwt., giving a 
gross of $1,151.00; and a net profit of $250.00. Two other bunches 
were of Jersey breed, one lot cost me as feeders $490.40; their feed 
of cotton seed hulls and meal cost me $251.21. The drove brought 
$7.25 per ewt., giving a gross of $1,068.00, and a net profit of 
$326.41. The last drove in the experiment, I fed for the same time 
an cotton seed meal and silage. The steers cost $501.04 and the feed 
$222.09; the gross price was $1,040, giving a profit of $316. These 
figures certainly prove that feeding is a money-making proposition 
and they ought to do lots to make Mississippi an extensive cattle 
state.’ — it 
A MODERN STOCK BARN AND SILO IN MISSISSIPPI. 
With tick eradication, the attendant improvement of live stock 
conditions will bring into more general demand the silo. The 
northern farmer, on $200 per acre land, makes a profit from growing 
corn when the price ranges below 50 cents per bushel. We wonder 
how this can be done and often talk about the folly of living in a 
section where land is so high when it can be had in Mississippi for 
so much less. The truth of the matter is, the northern farmer is 
doing better on his high-priced land than we are doing with ours. 
Why? Because he takes advantage of every method to market his 
corn profitably. Only a small portion of it is sold at the market 
price. 
The silo to a great extent solves the problem of making a profit 
out of $200 per acre land with corn. An acre of corn that will pro- 
