CONTENTS 



PART I.— FATTENING CATTLE FOR THE MARKET 



CHAPTER PAGE 



T. The Relation of Cattle Feeding to Soil Fer- 

 tility 9 



II. General Considerations in Buying Feeding 



Cattle 14 



III. The Various Grades of Feeding Cattle Des- 



cribed ....... 21 



IV. Incidental Expenses in the Cattle Feeding 



Business ; Freight and Commission ; Labor 30 



V. Some Business Phases of Cattle Feeding — 

 Relation of Cost of Feeds to Profits; Re- 

 lation of Initial Weights of Feeding 

 Cattle to Profits on Finished Beef; Rela- 

 tion of Cost Price of Various Grades of 

 Feeding Cattle to Profits . . .37 



VI. Wintering Stockers and Feeders . . 46 



VII. Getting Cattle on Feed . . . .49 



VIII. Feeds used for Fattening Cattle— Their 

 Preparation and Use; Corn; Cottonseed 

 Meal; Ground Linseed Cake or Oil Meal; 

 Oats; Molasses; Roughages; Chaffing Hay 

 and Mingling with Grain . . .53 



IX. Baby Beef 76 



X. Selecting Cattle for, and the Possibilities of 



the Short Feed 82 



XL Making Christmas Beef . . . .86 



XII. Care of Cattle on Feed — Quietness; Number 

 of Times to Feed; Number of Cattle To- 

 gether; Salting; Dehorning Stockers and 

 Feeders, How and Why . . .92 



