Question 12. "At what age do you usually put your steers 

 on full grain feed?" 



Considering the answers to these questions in their order 

 we have: 



Question 8. "About what weight at selling time has in 

 your experience returned the most clear profit, and why ?" 



A study of the detailed answers to this question will be ex- 

 ceedingly profitable, and the summaries by different states and 

 even by different counties in the state are very significant. 

 Note the unanimity with which these answers fall between 

 1,200 and 1,400 pounds live weight. Occasionally one drops to 

 1,100 pounds, which means that in the judgment of this partic- 

 ular feeder yearlings have been more profitable than older cat- 

 tle, and occasionally there will be a feeder who still feels that he 

 has made more money out of 1,500 or 1,600 pound steers, which 

 means three year olds, than out of lighter weights. 



The summary, by states, is as follows: 



This means that these feeders have found the so-called 

 "dressed beef" steer, weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds on 

 the market, the most profitable class to produce. This is pri- 

 marily because of the steady and uniform demand for cattle of 

 this class on the market, rather than because this particular age 

 or weight of cattle were produced more cheaply than lighter and 

 younger ones. There has been during the past twenty-five or 

 thirty years a marked change in the market demands of cattle. 

 Formerly, added to the difficulties of making young cattle fat 



