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and have no coarseness or heaviness of bone. As one goes 

 down the line of grades, each of these desirable features is 

 less to be seen. Thus an inferior steer would show a small 

 percentage of high-priced cuts, would lack in condition and 

 quality of flesh, and show much waste at slaughter. These 

 grades have the same relative importance in live stock as 

 similar terms have in grading corn or wheat. For compari- 

 son, we have dent corn for one type and sugar corn for 

 another. Dent corn we classify into white and yellow, and 

 then grade each 

 of these as No. 1, 

 No. 2,No.3,etc., 

 the best being 

 No. 1, compar- 

 able to the term 

 prime in live 

 stock. Put in a 

 simple diagram, 

 the relation of 

 the classes and 

 grades may be 

 shown as follows : 



Figure 31. The wool producing type, 

 the author. 



Photograph by 



BEEF TYPE 



CLASSES 



[Beef cattle 



\ Butcher stock 

 [Stockers and feeders 



GRADES 

 [Prime 

 |. Choice 

 .<Good 

 Medium 

 Common 

 I Inferior 



All markets do not have exactly the same classes and 

 grades of stock. The larger a market, the more the dealers 

 divide animals into classes and grades, for the widest demand 

 for different kinds here exist. In the small market not so 

 much attention is paid to the details of class; but the dealers 

 are quick to recognize the merits of a grade. In some 

 markets we find the people more interested in one kind of 

 stock than another. St. Louis is a noted horse market, 



