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temperament, This is not a physical character but rather 
an outcropping of the nervous nature. It is indicated 
in manners and bearing, but is not capable of being meas- 
ured as are other tangible qualities. Our best dairy cows 
manifest this typical dairy temperament in their general 
appearance, deportment, and disposition. A quiet, docile 
nature, with motherly attributes, and a willingness to 
give her milk to the milker instead of to her calf, typifies 
the spirit of dairy temperament. 
SWINE FOLLOWING STEERS IN THE FEED LOT 
Cattle take their grain from the feed box and the pigs gather up what falls to 
the ground. Usually no additional food is given the pigs other than what they 
gather from the waste and the droppings. 
4. Swine after cattle—When cattle are fed concen- 
trates or unground grain, such as corn, oats, barley or 
wheat, pigs and shotes should be placed in the feed lots 
or barnyards to pick up the undigested grains in the 
droppings. Often pigs secure the larger part of their sup- 
port in this way. A steer, on fattening rations, particu- 
larly when snapped corn is generously fed, will supply 
in its voidings food enough to support two or three good- 
sized shotes. If fed husked corn, the waste from two 
steers will suffice for three hogs; if fed shelled corn, a 
