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Feed and Moiiagement of Fattening Cattle. 389 



396. Cost of finished steer. — Anything from the lips or pen of 



that king of feeders of the last generation, J. D. Gillett, should 

 be preserved. Here is Mr. Gillett' s estimate of the cost of grow- 

 ing a steer up to thirty-six months of age:* 



Cost of steer twelve months old. 



Value of calf at birth $3 00 



Expenses of dam of calf, chargeable to calf for one year as fol- 

 lows: eight per cent, interest on $50, value of cow 4 00 



Keep of yearling and feed of cow 12 months 12 25 



Insurance on cow 1 00 



Risk of failure of cow to breed 1 75 



Loss of calves by death, etc 1 00 



No corn fed up to 12 months. 



Value of pasture and keep up to 12 months 6 00 



Total 29 00 



Weight of calf at 12 months, 700 pounds, at five cents 35 00 



Profit at 12 months of age 6 00 



Cost from twelve to twenty-four months of age. 



Value of steer at 12 months of age |35 00 



Value of shock corn, 110 bushels, at 35 cents 38 50 



Pasture 12 to 24 months 3 00 



Interest and risk.. 2 80 



Total 79 30 



Less 500 pounds pork made on droppings of steer, at five cents. ... 25 00 



Net cost 12 to 24 months 54 30 



Weight of steer at 24 months 1,600 pounds, at six and a half cent* 104 GO 



Profit at 24 months of age 49 70 



Cost from twenty-four to thirty-six m,onths of age. 



Value of steer at 24 months of age $104 00 



'^''alue of shock com consumed in entire year, 125 bus., at 35 cents 43 75 



Pasture, May 1 to Nov. 1 4 00 



Interest and risk 8 32 



Total 160 07 



Less 500 pounds pork at five cents, made on droppings of steer... 25 00 



Cost at 30 months of age 135 07 



Weight at 36 mouths of age, 2,200 pounds, at seven cents 154 00 



Profit at 36 months of age 18 93 



* Fugitive paper copied into Farmers' Review, Chicago, Dec. 7, 1882. 



