The Breeding Herd 67 
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. 
