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need this advice by 1975 unless you improve your cow lines, too. Avoid overstocking, don't buy hay or roughage*, use the who'W’corn plant for silage and —for heaven's sake—test it!" Avoid nostrums and highly promoted feeds with questionable ingredients. Find ways to intensify use of pasture. Maket breeding stock selections from herds where they grow well without stimulation of drugs, dope and extras. Some cattlemen need to increase herd size, but size alone is no cure-all. Automation is a luxury, so don’t go wild on machinery, equipment barns, and gadgets that cows can’t pay for. Remember that cows have only four ways of paying; through reduced cost§ greater calving percent, more growth, and improved grade. The scientists adds, “Comfort must be provided, however. Cattle won’t fatten that plow all day, and if they pull through mud--they’ve plowed! There’s not much to be gained when man-made stress of some kind saps away all the good you've done improving genetics and the feeding program.”
Jobs not done on time mark you as a careless, unresponsive, overrelaxed (lazy) individual, so paint up, cut the brush, castrate, dehorn, and vaccinate. Do something to guarantee carcass merit for your customers, says Litton. It is your business what goes on--even outside your line fences. “Find a way to do without the fads in seed stock production in favor of the practical needs of the commercial man who has to make a living withwhat you produce for him. The ‘Country Club’ image attached to some purebreds helps destroy confidence of country bull buyers whether it should or not. Get ready for 1975, because if you wait to do ittomorrow may be too late.”
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