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feeds beef cattle for the market learned this long, long 

 ago and avoids the steers which have small pointed mouths. 

 The beef man knows that a steer with a small mouth will 

 not eat enough feed to get fat. Such a steer will never be 

 profitable. The same is true of the cow. The cow with a 

 small mouth will eat enough feed to maintain her body but 

 not enough to produce largely and profitably, milk and 

 butter fat. 



It has been said that cows which can drink out of a 

 tincup will give a tincup full of milk, but a cow which re- 

 quires a washtub out of which to eat and drink will give 

 a washtub full of milk. 



We ask that the cow be long from the shoulder to the 

 hip and beyond, well sprung in the rib and deep in the 

 body. There is where she stores her feed. 



If the cow is short from the shoulder and doesn't have 

 the spring of rib she is short and shallow in the body, she 

 will not store up the amount of feed to make butter fat 

 required for a profit. Cows short from the shoulder to 

 the hip and beyond, slab-sided in the rib and shallow in 

 the body, do not eat enough feed to be profitable; they eat 

 enough feed to take care of themselves but not enough to 

 make any profit for their owner. 



The size of the barrel is merely indicative of the 

 amount a cow can eat at one time. The question of how 

 she handles her feed depends on the character, strength 

 and power of her digestive apparatus, which in turn is 

 determined by the condition and appearance of the hide 

 and hair. This cow is covered with a hide soft and pliable 

 and elastic, although she has not been blanketed, probably 

 given no special care. If you were to run your hands 

 through her hair you would see it is soft and silky. The 

 hide and hair are merely a continuation outward of the 

 vital organs of digestion. Soft and silky hair is indicative 

 of a strong, powerful digestive apparatus. She will eat 

 her feed, as much as she can, then she will lie down. She 

 regurgitates her feed, masticates it, mixes it with saliva, 

 starts the first processes of digestion, gets rid of that feed 

 promptly and is ready for more. That cow which has a 



