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PART II 



FINISHING TWO YEAR OLD STEERS 



The degree of finish to which a steer is carried should be gov- 

 erned by the quality and type of the steer, the season of the year, 

 the cost of gains and the condition of the market for finished cat- 

 tle. It is not always profitable to make cattle fat enough to sell at 

 top prices especially if they are of poor type and deficient in qual- 

 ity but when high grade steers are being fed on rations that insure 

 economical gains there is usually an additional profit secured from 

 making them prime over marketing them in half-fat condition. 



During the winter 1906-7 the Station fed one lot of cattle on 

 shelled corn, cotton-seed meal, clover hay and corn silage, a similar 

 lot on shelled corn, clover hay and corn silage, both of which are 

 reported in bulletin No. 129. When they had been in the feed 

 lots for four months, another lot, which had been fed shelled corn, 

 clover hay, corn stover and oat straw during the same length of 

 time, was purchased from a feeder and given a ration of shelled 

 corn, cotton-seed meal, clover hay and corn silage. 



