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...TIME, May 7 for the spread and the pasture scene on the Brahman herd. We have received many compliments about the picture and it was certainly a magnificent job, from making the picture to its publication. The article was excellent and I believe gives a true picture of the cattleman's problem in many details. G. A. FURGASON General Manager Norris Cattle Co. Ocala...
...knows how many there are. Estimates of the proportion of dwarfs in beef breeds have gone as high as 7%. Some unfortunate herds have produced 12%, and the figures might be higher if cattlemen did not conceal their monsters. Considerably less than 12% of dwarfs can bankrupt a cattleman...
Better Feeds, Better Breeds. The same precision carries over from breeding to feeding. In the old days, a steer grazed on its 20 acres of range, with perhaps some casual supplementary grain feeding. The modern cattleman, however, views his animal as a factory-like converter of carbohydrates into a protein food. Depending on weather and range, he may feed the beef a daily ration of two pounds of soy or cottonseed cake, fortified by molasses for energy, bonemeal for calcium, plus iodized salt and vitamins A and D. Antibiotics are added to increase the rate of gain and disease resistance...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...
Dick Neuberger, a highly vocal anti-partnership partisan, was spoiling to get a Republican on the debating platform, when Cattleman Sam Coon bravely accepted the challenge to defend his bill in public. Said Coon: "I've never run away from a fight in my life when I've knowed I was right, and I'm right now, so here...