Feeding Beef Cattle 187 
QUESTIONS 
1. How do the Wolff-Lehman and Armsby standards compare in re- 
spect to the protein required for the growing animal? Why this differ- 
ence? Which of these requirements meets your conditions? 
2. Which requires the more protein, beef production or milk produc- 
tion? How much protein would there be in the flesh of a steer gain- 
ing two pounds per day? Compare with the dairy cow yielding thirty 
pounds of milk. \ 
3. Why does a young steer gain more economically than an old one? 
A thin one more than a fat one? One of good form more than one of 
poor form? And one of good quality more than one of poor quality ? 
4. How should the following lots of cattle be wintered, if intended for 
fattening the following summer: calves, fancy yearlings, fancy heifers, 
inferior steers, and common cows? 
5. Assuming that it is desired to market the first of October, how should 
the above lots be fed, if they have the range of a good blue grass pasture ? 
6.. Is there as much permanent pastureland in your county asformerly ? 
Why? What grasses constitute the pasture? How many animals will 
ten acres support? How can this be increased ? 
7. Why is baby-beef popular with the butchers? Under what con- 
ditions is baby-beef the most profitable for the farmer? Why do farmers 
who buy their cattle prefer to feed older ones? 
8. Are the beef cattle of your vicinity raised in the county or are they 
shipped into it for fattening? Where do they come from? 
9. Why should considerable time be taken to put range cattle on full 
feed? Why do these cattle often refuse grain, especially at first ? 
10. Approximately how many carloads of fat cattle are shipped from 
your county annually? Where do they go? 
