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Feeder bulls. These are young bulls of good beef type. 

 Both the supply and the demand are limited. 



Stockers. Thin yearling steers are not in much demand 

 as feeders so long as the supply of two-year-olds is large enough 

 to satisfy feeder demands. The yearlings are mostly available 

 for stocker purposes and are quoted in market reports as "year- 

 ling stockers." They are such cattle as will, after a summer 

 on grass and good wintering, be suitable to put on grain feed. 

 Most of the stocker trade, however, is in heifers which when 

 sent to the country are used for grazing and for breeding pur- 



Fig. 32. Choice Feeder. 



poses. The better ones have considerable beef blood and good 

 square frames. They are too thin to classify as butcher stock, 

 and are too good in form and quality to sell at the low prices 

 paid for cutters and canners. Stockers are graded on the same 

 basis as feeders. 



Stock and feeding cows. A rather common practice is 

 to buy thin cows showing evidences of beef breeding, turn them 

 on pasture and breed them, rough them through the winter, 

 and the next season, after their calves are weaned, fatten them 

 off for market, retaining the calves for feeding purposes. Such 

 cows are called stock and feeding cows. 



