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good dairy cow properly bred takes her feed and places it 

 in the udder where milk and butter fat are made. This 

 absence of beefiness over the top line and over the hips 

 and ribs is the evidence, providing the cow has been well 

 fed, that she is utilizing her feed for manufacturing but- 

 ter fat worth fifty cents a pound instead of beef fat worth 

 ten or fifteen cents a pound. Cows covered with a lot of 

 beef over the top and over the ribs are loafers, because 

 they have converted their feed into beef instead of butter. 



The only way to get back the money invested in this 

 beef the cow has manufactured out of her feed, is to kill 

 the cow, and that spoils the game. 



The fourth point — blood circulation — is the question 

 of what the cow does with the nutrients she has taken from 

 her feed when it has entered the digestive apparatus. If 

 you stop to think how one cow takes feed and manufac- 

 tures it into beef and another cow takes the same feed and 

 manufactures it into milk and butter fat, then you will be- 

 gin to realize that the character of the blood flow of a cow, 

 and the direction in which it flows, are very important fac- 

 tors. Books and volumes have been written upon this, but 

 briefly, the beef cow eats her feed, and when she gets time 

 she lies down, regurgitates, masticates it, mixes the saliva 

 with it; it then goes into the second stomach, passes to the 

 third and fourth and as it passes along in the processes of 

 digestion the digestive fluids take from it the digestible nu- 

 trients. Then the blood is pumped out from the heart and 

 passes along the digestive system, picks up or absorbs these 

 nutrients and, in the case of a beef cow, puts them on the 

 top of the shoulder, on the back, loins and hip, and rump, 

 and in the hind quarters; the beef cow places her feed 

 above that line there (indicating on cow). You must bear 

 in mind that the high-priced cuts is above that line, and if 

 your cattle are to sell for ten or eleven cents instead of 

 three or four or five cents a pound, you must put your feed 

 into cattle that will have porterhouse steaks and rib roasts. 

 So, the reason we have beef cattle is because they have 

 been bred for the purpose of manufacturing their feed into 

 beef and putting their feed over the high-priced cuts of 

 the animal. 



