American citizens. essentially home builders and small farmers. It is a purely agricultural region and always will remain so. The large ranches disappeared before this tide of immigration and civilization. and the enterprising American farmer has had to wrestle with the proposition of the production of his beef and the maintenance of his cattle upon expensive grains and forages raised by his own toil. instead of the free range grasses of the prairies. Practical experience has proven that only where grass is cheap and abundant can the growing of cattle be profitably maintained if the one source of profit is in the production of beef. While the value of the offspring of the cow is estimated at about onethird of her value for each year of its growth. the value of her milk product. which requires the labor of the farmer and his family in its production. is estimated to be double that of the value of the animal itself.
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