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3. If a steer weighing 1,000 pounds can be finished with an addi- 

 tional weight of 200 pounds, what will be the profit if he is sold at $6.15 

 per hundred^ if he cost $50 and the cost of the feed was $20? 



NOTE. When heavy steers similar in age, quality, type, and con- 

 dition, require the same increase in weight as lighter steers, for finishing, 

 and can be purchased at the same price per pound as light steers, the 

 profit will be greater in feeding heavy steers. 



4. A farmer purchased two steers of the same age, type, and con- 

 dition ; he paid 5c per pound for each ; one weighed 1,000 pounds, and 

 the other weighed 1,100 pounds ; he finished each with an additional 350 

 pounds ; the cost of corn at 61c per bushel made the cost of each 350 

 pounds about $35 ; the steers were sold at $6.50 per hundred weight ; what 

 was the difference in profit between the two steers? 



5. What should the farmer have paid for the lighter steer in 

 problem 4, so that the profit would have been the same from both steers? 



6. A man buys 2 steers, one being a high grade and the other an 

 inferior grade beef steer; he pays 5c a pound for the former and 4 and 

 one-half cents for the latter; he feeds them till each makes a gain of 

 300 pounds; the cost of gain was $30 for each steer; he sells the high 

 grade steer @ $6.75 per hundred and the inferior steer @ $5.75 per cwt. 

 What was the profit or loss on each? 



7. What would have been the financial results if this man had paid 

 the same price, 5c per lb., for both feeders described in problem 6? 



8. If it requires 200 pounds to finish a 1,100 pound steer, and the 

 cost is $35, when corn is 60c per bushel ; at that rate of increase what will 

 it cost to put 200 pounds of weight on the same type of steer when corn 

 is 45c per bushel? 



Feeding Methods. 



The character of the ration depends upon the purpose in 

 feeding and the conditions of the steer. 



Thin cattle will make rapid physical gains on roughage 

 alone. 



An excellent ration may be made of corn silage, leguminous 

 forage crops, such as alfalfa, clover or cowpeas. 



After being sufficiently fattened, grain should be used, 

 especially with corn as a grain basis, with high grade nitrogenous 

 concentrates, such as linseed and cottonseed meal or gluten feed. 



Fattening cattle should have all the roughage that they will 

 consume readily without waste. 



Grain rations should be limited to what they can consume in 

 from one-half to three-quarters of an hour. 



Six pounds of concentrates daily for 1,000 pounds of live 



