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years. In many places this charge may be reduced because of 

 a lower valuation on the land, but even in the Sand Hills area 

 there is but little land valued at less than $4.00 per acre, and 

 here the acreage per steer required is much more than that used 

 in the estimate above. If there is much winter pasture it will 

 probably be outside of the acreage pastured during the sum- 

 mer. Table 17 gives the cost of 100 Ibs. gain of the six lots, 

 when each steer is charged $4.09 per summer for pasture and 

 water. Table 35 gives the cost of 100 Ibs. gain if these steers 

 were charged for pasture at prices ranging from 25 cents to 

 75 cents per month. (Page 46.) 



TABLE 17. Cost of 100 Ibs. gain on steers on pasture during each 

 summer pasture at $4-09 per steer. 



TABLE 18. Cost of feed per head for wintering steers in this 



experiment. 



