. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 30.—The upper picture show? a purebred beef bull, scrub cows, and firstand .«econd cross cows and calves in a Cotton Belt herd. The lower pictureshows a drove of second-cross calves which were produced by such a grad-ing-up process. A pressing need in the South is more purebred beef cattle.(See Fig. 17.) A general grading up of the quality of the cattle in theSouth would greatly increase the productivity and profitableness of theindustry. Our Beef tSupply. 255 parasites better, and are more resistant to Texas-fever ticksthan other cattle. On the cut-over pine h

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. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 30.—The upper picture show? a purebred beef bull, scrub cows, and firstand .«econd cross cows and calves in a Cotton Belt herd. The lower pictureshows a drove of second-cross calves which were produced by such a grad-ing-up process. A pressing need in the South is more purebred beef cattle.(See Fig. 17.) A general grading up of the quality of the cattle in theSouth would greatly increase the productivity and profitableness of theindustry. Our Beef tSupply. 255 parasites better, and are more resistant to Texas-fever ticksthan other cattle. On the cut-over pine hinds of the coastal plains, extendingfrom North Carolina to Texas, most of the cattle run onthe range the year around. It requires from 5 to 20 acresof such pasture per cow. The chief grasses are wire grassand broom sedge, Avhich have a low feeding value. The

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