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for the one answering from Nebraska, 69,595, making a total of 

 1,567,06? for the 726 answering this question, or an average 

 of 2,160 cattle fed and marketed per man. A total of 857 an- 

 swered our questions, but, only 726 answered the question as to 

 the number of cattle fed. Assuming that those who did not 

 answer the question had an equal experience with those who did, 

 the total number of caftle represented in our reports would be 

 1,851,120. The magnitude of these numbers will be apparent 

 when it is realized that this is approximately, two-thirds of the 

 total number of cattle offered for sale at Chicago in an entire 

 year and is practically equal to the entire receipts at the Kansas 

 City stock yards and more than arrive at either St. Louis or 

 Omaha in a year. 



3. What is the average length of your feeding period; 

 i. e., the number of days your cattle are on full feed? 



* It will be observed, in studying the details of the reports, 

 that the number in this particular varied all the way from 60 or 

 90 days for a short feed on old cattle, to a full year for baby 

 beef. The average of all the answers received to this question 

 is as follows : 



The close agreement in the average length of the feeding 

 period between the various states, barring Nebraska, from 

 which we have but one report, and, in fact, the close agreement 

 between the individual reports on this point, is very significant. 

 It is particularly interesting, when the answers to this question 

 are considered in connection with the answers to question No. 



