CATTLE 81 
A few brief guides to profitable beef production are 
given below: 
Good pastures are essential for profitable beef pro¬ 
duction. 
Use coarse fodders, straws, and the stalk fields for 
wintering the breeding herd. 
Raise and finish cattle on the same farm when 
possible. 
Fid. 54—A Red Polled bull. 
Silage is the best roughage for fattening any class 
of cattle. 
More care is necessary in feeding calves than in feed¬ 
ing matured animals. 
Finishing cattle early in the summer is usually more 
profitable than finishing them later in the season. 
Thin steers when put on pasture make larger and 
cheaper daily gains than fleshy ones. 
