IIXUSTRATIONS 



An Ideal Feeder's Head. (From Iowa State College.) — Frontispiece 



Fig. Page 



1. Rough, stony, or semi-arid land may be utilized as pasture. (U. S. 



Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1921.) 20 



2. Points of the steer 34 



3. Points of the steer 35 



4. A model bullock. (From Prof. C. F. Gobble, Purdue University.) ... 37 



5. The right pattern 39 



6. Correct type in the fat steer. (From Iowa State College.) 40 



7. A steer with excellent lines. (From Iowa State College.) 41 



8. A "rare good one." (From Prof. Gordon H. True, University of 



California.) 43 



9. Proportions of lean and fat in beef cattle. (From Influence of Nutrition 



Upon the Animal Form, Dean H. J. Waters, University of Missouri.) 44 



10. Knocking cattle 47 



11. Prime steer carcass 51 



12. Beef ribs. (From Iowa State College.) 54 



13. Well-marbled beef. (From Iowa State College.) 56 



14. Cuts of beef indicated in the live animal. (From Iowa State College.) . 57 



15. Wholesale cuts of beef 59 



16. How by-products reduce dressed beef prices. (From Monthly Letter 



to Animal Husbandmen, Aug. 1, 1920, Edward N. Wentworth, 



Armour's Livestock Bureau, Chicago.) 63 



17. Dairy-type steer. (From Iowa State College.) 71 



18. Dairy-type steer. (From Iowa State College.) 73 



19. Carcasses of beef and dairy calves. (From Iowa State College.) 75 



20. Carcasses of beef and dairy calves. (From Iowa State College.) 76 



21. Average monthly receipts and shipments of cattle at Chicago 81 



22. Union Stock Yards, Chicago. (From A. G. Leonard, President, Union 



Stock Yard and Transit Company.) 86 



23. Ideal of early beef producers. (From Iowa State College.) 97 



24. Prime baby beef. (From Iowa State College.) 99 



25. Baby beeves on feed. (From Prof. A. B. Caine, Iowa State College.) . . 100 



26. A g and champion fat heifer. (From Prof. Gordon H. True, Univer- 



sity of California.) 102 



27. Fancy selected feeders. (From 111. Bui. 78, Prof. H. W. Mumford.) ... 109 



28. An average load of steers on feed. (From Iowa State College.) 113 



29. Fancy feeder calves 117 



30. Western range cattle 120 



31. Prime beef steers 123 



32. Choice beef steers 124 



33. Good beef steers. (From 111. Bui. 78, Prof. H. W. Mumford.) 125 



34. Common beef steers. (From U. S. Dept. Agr. Rpt. 113.) 126 



35. Prime butcher heifer. (From C. V. Whalin, U. S. Bureau of Agricul- 



tural Economics.) 127 



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