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high maintenance, too. After a couple of tough winters and some marginal nutrition, they probably won’t look much better than that Pinzgauer-Jer- sey cross I bought from the dairy as a graft calf a few years back, but that still remains in the cow herd because she always looks too rough to sell when the cull cows go to town. I refuse to take all of the blame for my decadent behavior, though. It’s a cycle that’s tough to break, and one that non-livestock folk can scarcely even try to understand. As a kid, I remember my dad staying up late with his stash of ABS and Select Sires catalogs. He didn’t even try to hide them. I’d find them on the coun- ter, under the stacks of the Summit County Weekly Bee and The West- ern Livestock Journal , or behind the seat of the pickup. You know, I always used to believe him when he said he only read them for the expected prog- eny differences. PT

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