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Feeds and Feeding. 



■f we include all charges — interest, taxes, labor, feed and risk — 

 it will be found that one hundred pounds of gain made during fat- 

 tening, by well-finished steers, cost from eight to ten dollars at 

 the West and from ten to twelve dollars at the East. 



At the Iowa Station, » Wilson and Curtiss fed 18 steers of nine 

 different breeds with results as follows: 



Chst of feed with steers during three feeding periods of 9S days 

 each — Iowa Station. 



These trials are representative of conditions in the Mississippi 

 Valley. We observe that the lowest cost was $4. 31 for 100 pounds 

 of gain, in Iowa, with steers getting com meal on clover pasture. 

 The highest cost was $8. 05 for steers at the Kansas Station getting 

 ear corn. 



in. Value of Breed, in Beef Making. 



569. Amount of feed consumed. — Every person with experi- 

 ence in the cattle business concedes that ''blood tells" in beef 

 production. Where there is such unanimity of expression the 

 fact must exist, but the reasons given are not always the same 

 and so are worthy of careful examination. 



Occasionally the claim is advanced that well-bred cattle eat 

 less than natives or scrubs. This opinion is not generally held 

 by owners of pure-bred or high-grade stock, who know that their 



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