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Types and Market. Classes of Live Stock 



represent only the most highly desirable or profitable sorts of animals, 

 while there are market classes for all sorts of animals — profitable and 

 unprofitable from the producer's standpoint. The less profitable 

 market classes are filled incidentally, not through any design of the 

 breeder. Some market classes are composed of animals that have 

 already served one or more purposes; having outlived their usefulness 

 they are discarded and sent to market. The market is accommodating; 

 it provides a place for all sorts of odds and ends, and hunts up a use for 

 them. Thus some market classes persist which at first thought have 

 no excuse for being. Everything classifies somewhere. 



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grass. In the background appears a scales-house where cattle are weighed to the 

 buyer when sold. 



General market terms.V— Before describing the market classes and 

 grades, some of the general descriptive terms used in the cattle market 

 need explanation. As applied to market cattle these general terms 

 have no direct bearing on the market classification, but they serve to 

 indicate, in a more or less general manner, where the cattle were raised 

 and how they were fed. Inasmuch as the cattle of many sections of 

 the country possess certain rather well-marked characteristics, these 

 general descriptive terms are significant and are useful in describing 

 the character of market off"erings. 



Native and western cattle. — Native cattle are those originating on 

 the farms of the Central West, East, and South. Western cattle are 



