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The cattle feeder should consider carefully the data presented in 

 Tables I and II which clearly show that lighter and thinner cattle 

 make cheaper gains than heavy, fleshy feeders if fed the same length 

 of time, but where fed to the same marketable finish, the cost of 

 gains will be practically the same ; that heavy, fleshy feeders, 

 suitable to be finished in 90 to no days, will cost practically 

 50 cents more per hundred than cattle similar in every respect ex- 

 cept that they do not carry so much flesh ; that the difference in cost 

 of the fleshy feeders and light thin feeders, both during the fall of 

 1906 and 1907, was not great enough to offset the difference in the 

 cost of making gains in the feed lot. This shows that it is generally 

 cheaper to buy flesh on the feeders than to put it on in the feed lot. 

 It was necessary to put on 464 pounds during the first test and 

 479 pounds during the second test on the "long fed' 1 cattle, and 285 

 pounds in the first test and 318 pounds in the second test on the 

 "short fed" cattle, while in the feed lot, to make them equally fat. 

 It was necessary for the "short fed" cattle to increase in value 16.6 

 cents per month for a three months period, while it was necessary for 

 the "long fed" cattle to increase 17.5 cents per month for a six 

 months period, with corn at 40 cents per bushel in order to break 

 even on feeding cattle without counting the value of either hogs or 

 manure. 



