ot only splendid canners, but furnish quite an element of cutters,
which means cattle producing very fair meat for regular consumption. I
believe, too, that on any range of appreciable dimensions you will find
it an economy to produce your own bulls, and in starting any good sized
property I urge that you keep that in mind. Get your cows just as good
as you can get them; of course pure-breds will be better, and then use
only the best registered sires in that herd.

I think advisable, too, in your branding, to put the year brand on all
heifers, as it will be of material assistance to you in the matter of
knowing the intensification of blood during the early process. It will
not be so important later on when the cattle are all very high grade.

The use of the scrub bull is an economic crime; therefore no matter what
you use in the way of a sire you are pointed upward, but I feel that it
will be a distinct economy to try to get seven-eighths, or at least
fifteen-sixteenths sires.

Another thing which offers a great economy in your country is the
possibility of dropping calves an average of about two months earlier
than they do in Texas. We do not like to have a calf come before the 1st
of April. I believe that you can drop yours during January and February
without any trouble, judging from the average condition of your cattle
in a winter said to be from early October, the most severe you have ever
had. Dropping a calf at that time will have him old enough to eat your
young grasses when they begin to come. He will have a two months' pull
over the Texas calf; will have at least two months longer to combine
nursing and grazing to deliver him the first of November.

As a summary of your breeding problem, I regard it as the simplest thing
you have to deal with. There seems to be a sure result by comparison
with other countries; there can be little argument as to its economic
value, and it is simply a matter of disposition and making the proper
investment in inclosures, in bulls and water development to accomplish a
good business result.

I only want to add this fragment as to breeding. Since dictating this
section I chanced to meet at lunch today Mr. Will Goodwin, for thirty
years one of the officers and managers of the Breeders' Gazette and one
of the best authorities in the world on cattle. His winter home is near
Ocala, Florida, and he has seen enough of your ranges to convince him of
their great utility in beef producti