. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Shorthorn bull—Choice Goods—an American and English cham-pion and a noted breeding sire. Tebo Land and Cattle Com-pany, Clinton, Hereford bull—Prime Lad. An American Natta & Sons, Fowler, Indiana. W. H. 138 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. produces, unless it be in a locality where farmingland is best suited for pasturing purposes. Thebutter or cheese made from a good cow amountsto $40 or $50 per year, which, deducting the cost oflabor, much more than pays for the feed she con-sumes. But cows pre-eminently suited for economic
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Shorthorn bull—Choice Goods—an American and English cham-pion and a noted breeding sire. Tebo Land and Cattle Com-pany, Clinton, Hereford bull—Prime Lad. An American Natta & Sons, Fowler, Indiana. W. H. 138 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. produces, unless it be in a locality where farmingland is best suited for pasturing purposes. Thebutter or cheese made from a good cow amountsto $40 or $50 per year, which, deducting the cost oflabor, much more than pays for the feed she con-sumes. But cows pre-eminently suited for economicalmilk production are not satisfactory beef producers,nor are the calves when such cows are bred todairy bulls, as has been shown. Since a good cow,properl}^ handled, may be milked with profit for aperiod of at least eight years, and during this timewill produce, upon an average, four heifer calves,it is apparent that for maintaining a dairy herdof cows, only one-fourth the cow herd need be bredeach year to a dairy bull, or the entire herd may bebred to such a bull once in four years. All othercalves are available for beef production and shouldbe sired by a beef bull. Bulls of E
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