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but once a day, either about sunrise or sunset. To offset this, however, 

 labor on the average farm is scarce and much higher priced in summer 

 than in winter. The manure is scattered by the cattle themselves and the 

 hauling of it but upon the ground is dispensed with. Grass is cheaper 

 than hay, as has already been pointed out and make better gains. The 

 handling of the roughage is likewise disposed of. 



In the latitude of Missouri the winter weather is quite variable and 

 this is particularly true of February to the middle of April. It is par- 

 ticularly costly to attempt to finish cattle in this season. Fairly rapid 

 and economical gains can be made in this variable weather on those 

 cattle that have been freshly put on feed, but when the steers approach 

 the finishing period, when their appetities become dainty and when at 

 best it is diflicult to induce them to eat enough to make substantial and 

 economical gains, the disturbance of the weather is particularly noticeable 

 and ofttimes when cattle are almost finished they will stand for thirty 

 and sometimes sixty days without making scarcely any gain at all. This 

 is quite likely to be true if the lots are muddy and if the roughness 

 is not particularly palatable and is fed in the open, where it is drenched 

 with rain soon after it is put in the rack. 



The most favorable portion of the winter season for feeding is in the 

 late autumn and during December and January, unless these months be 

 wet or variable. Many of the most successful feeders do not finish their 

 cattle in these unfavorable parts of the winter, but utilize them for get- 

 ting the cattle started or "warmed up," as they express it. 



These replies, received from the 1,000 Missouri, Illinois and Iowa 

 stockmen, will be summarized by Dr. Waters in a bulletin to be issued, 

 showing the results of experience in beef production in the corn belt, 

 together with a summary of some of the feeding experiments conducted 

 in the Missouri Agricultural college experiment station. 



AUCTIONS OF PURE-BRED BEEF CATTLE IN 1907. 

 (From the Breeders' Gaette.) 

 Annual summary of the public sales of pure-bred beef cattle held in the 

 United States during 1907. 



SHORT HORNS. 



Seller and Place 



Various breeders, Grinnell, Iowa „ 



Various breeders, Denver Colo. 



F. A. Edwards, Webster City Iowa 



J. F. Stodder and others, Wichita. Kan. .. 



J. II. Denher, Cascade, Iowa 



Jo Daviess Co. (111.) Cattle Breeders' Asso 



elation. Galena, 111. 



Good, Ryden, & Failon, Galesburg, 111 



J. A. Countryman & Son, Rochelle, 111 



('. R. Steele, Ireton, Iowa 



Carrier & Son, Newton, Iowa 



Various breeders. Ft. Worth, Tex 



T. K. Thompson & Sons, Manhattan, Kan... 



N. P. Clarke, So. Omaha, Neb. 



W. M. Randel, Bainbridge, Ind. 



11. F. Brown, Minneapolis, Minn. ^-._- 



F. W. Harding, Waukesha, Wis 



H. S. Bright, Versailles, Ky. 



Hill, Hanna and Cowley, Fredonia, Kan 



