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4. Beef cattle—The stock from which beef is secured 
the world over is now limited to the few choice breeds of 
Great Britain and the United States. Continental 
Europe has many strains of cattle. Some of these strains 
make excellent beef, but compared with the products of 
England, Scotland and the United States, the beef stock 
is inferior. The English have long been a beef-eating 
WHERE GRADE STEERS ARE FATTENED IN LARGE NUMBERS 
Note in the background the large silo which, with clover furnishes the bulk of 
the roughage portion of the ration. Corn and the oil meals are largely used for 
the grain portion. These are western raised steers being fattened in the eastern 
part of corn belt, 
people, and’ from the earliest until recent times have 
sought to improve their cattle breeds, that not only more 
meat, but meat of a high quality, might be secured. 
5. The popular Shorthorn.—It is not to the discredit 
of other beef breeds that the Shorthorn in the popular 
mind holds first place in the beef world. These cattle 
are of such high merit, and have been with us so long, 
that their fame has become world wide and notable. 
