No bull can do heavy service well, on…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

llow Bob to his corner and finish the fight. Bob brought in the hide which is as large and fine as any ever taken in the west. It is for sale at five thousand dollars, not a cent less. From Ihe December 4, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise Wm. Warfield in Cattle Breeding. No bull can do heavy service well, on pasture alone, be it ever so good. There is no better food ration than the best pasturage, and it meets the requirements of animals under or- dinary conditions most admirably; but a bull doing full service the year round is not living under ordinary conditions, and he needs a more condensed ration, one which will give a greater amount of nutritive food for the same amount of bulk. The pasturage should be supplemented by a liberal allowance — as much as the bull will eat up cleanly in most cases, unless actual experience shows that he inclines to become too fat on such a ration — of cut oats and chop- ped hay, and a good feed of wheat bran and corn, shelled and crushed if possible. This is necessary to keep up the lusty state of body which is so essential to sexual vigor. A great many breeders allow their stock bulls to run out with their cows. The result of this is that they get only such food as the cows get. Now, while there is no need of anything more than pasturage or pasturage and hay and corn-