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TABLE XIII— Continued. 



Prizes won 



1st in class, $100; 

 Rosenbaum spe- 

 cial $100; 



Ingwersen special, 

 $l(W Champion sil- 

 ver cup 



2nil prize in class, 



$50 



1st prize in closs, 

 $100 



*Based upon the following prices:— 



Corn @ 75 cents per bushel 



Cotton-seed meal @ $28.00 per ton 



Hay @ $10.00 per ton. 



Corn silage @ $ 4.00 per ton 



Stock feeds and molasses feeds and pasture at prices prevalent at the itme 

 they were used. 



The accompanying table gives the result of the different lots of short- 

 fed cattle exhibited at the show. The statement varies slightly from 

 that presented by the various feeders, owing to the fact that the prices 

 used for feeds were variable. In making up the table a uniform price 

 of feeds has been used in order that the comparison may be made as 

 nearly accurate as possible. There were two lots of two-year-old cattle 

 exhibited and one of yearlings. It will be noticed in studying this table 

 that the fifteen head of yearlings fed at the Station made a gain of 

 5,377.5 pounds as compared with 4,146 pounds and 4,200 pounds by the 

 two-year-old cattle fed by practical feeders. This would amount to 80 

 pounds per steer during the four months' feeding period in favor of the 

 methods used at the Station. The cost in producing 100 pounds gain is 

 joresented in connection with the rate of gain to show that the Station 

 cattle made their gains at a cost of $5.98 per hundred less than the 

 Crabb two-year-olds and $3.51 less than the Henderson two-year-old cattle. 

 The cattle were sold at public auction on the same market, and an inter- 

 esting comparison is there shown, where the Purdue yearlings sold at 

 $7.70 per hundred, or 50 cents per hundred higher than the Henderson 

 tw^o-y ear-olds and 60 cents higher than the Crabb tw^o-year-olds. The 

 dressing percentage in the various lots was quite uniform, varying from 

 59.01 per cent up to 59.9 per cent. First prize was awarded the Crabb 

 two-year-olds in the two-year-old class and to the Purdue yearlings in 

 the yearling class. When it came to awarding the championship it was 

 given to the Crabb two-year-olds in spite of the fact that the Station cattle 

 had made 1.231.5 pounds greater gain at a cost of $5.98 per hundred 

 less and that they were considered to be worth 60 cents per hundred 

 more than the championship cattle on foot when bought by the same party. 

 This would seem to indicate that the award was based entirely upon 

 the probable dressing percentage of the cattle, without any consideration 

 of the rate or cost of gains or the quality of the beef. 



