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have explained, because we haven't been able to gain access to all of the 

 accounts sales, so that we haven't had an entire record of all the cattle. 



Here are the other two grades of cattle of which we kept a record — 

 'common" steers and "cheap" steers: 



COMMON STEERS. 



Total, 131,674. 



No. Pet. 



Iowa 55,083 41.9 



Illinois 31,519 23.9 



Others 45,072 34.2 



Packers 41,096 31.2 



Shippers, local butchers, stockers and feeders 34,500 26.2 



Others 56,078 42.6 



CHEAP CATTLE. 



Total, 63,612. 



Iowa 16,943 26.6 



Illinois 7,751 12.2 



Others 38,918 61.2 



Packers 4,484 7.0 



Shippers, local butchers, stockers and feeders 14,865 23.3 



Others 44,263 66.5 



The common steers are the poorest kind of carcasses which are sold 

 as dressed beef. After they get below that they are sold mostly as cutters 

 and canners or as boners. 



Receipts of common cattle totaled 131,674, of which Iowa furnished 

 55,083, or 41.9 per cent; Illinois, 31,519, or 23.9 per cent, and all other 

 states, 45,072, or 34.2 per cent. In these two grades I kept a record of 

 only Iowa and Illinois and lumped the other states together. 



Now you notice that of the common steers, the packers bought about 

 31.2 per cent, and here, instead of including shippers exclusively, I have 

 changed the form a little bit and included not only shippers but local 

 butchers, and that means all cattle slaughtered outside of the packers' 

 beef, and that makes about 26.2 per cent, and the stocker and feeder 

 buyers and others buy 56,078 head, or about 42.6 per cent. 



Of these cheap steers — the cheapest kind — Iowa furnishes 16,943, or 

 26.6 per cent; Illinois, 7,751, or 12.2 per cent, and all other states, 38,918 

 head, or 61.2 per cent, and I would say that "others" here means very 

 largely Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and what come into the 

 market from other markets, especially from St. Paul; but of these cattle 

 the packers buy only about 7 per cent; shippers and local butchers, 23.3 

 per cent, and stockers and feeders and others buy about 66.5 per cent. So 

 that the market for this grade of cattle is made by the stocker and feeder 

 buyers and not for slaughtering purposes. 



In order to show the distribution of these cattle as they come to mar- 

 ket from month to month, the total supply of choice cattle received during 



