24 BULLETIN 777, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
9. Scrub steers do not respond readily to the use of good feeds, 
and even when well finished do not command satisfactory prices in 
competition with well-bred cattle similarly finished. On the other 
hand, good grade or pure-bred beef cattle make better use of their 
feeds, finish more rapidly, and always bring more on the market than 
scrub cattle of the same weight. The better the quality of the steers 
the safer it is to feed them high-priced feeds. 
10. For a farmer who has roughages such as silage, hay, straw, 
stover, cottonseed hulls, or stalk feeds, and contemplates fattening 
steers on summer pasture, it is usually better to purchase the steers 
in the fall, and winter them on the roughages and a little cottonseed 
meal than it is to purchase them in the spring for fattening during 
the grazing season. 
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