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BULLETIN 1277, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
is credited at a uniform value of 7^ cents per pound. Varying the 
assumed value of pork would give slightly varying results. 
The figures shown in these tables are the costs that, so far as 
learned from the analysis, would most probably occur under each 
specified set of conditions in the area from which the base data were 
secured. These figures are not presented as the exact statement of 
what the costs would be on any given farm in the area; but they 
probably closely parallel what those farm costs would be. That is, 
for each given set of conditions, the combination which gives the 
least cost in these estimates is most likely to be the combination which 
gives- the least cost on any particular farm, even though the costs 
on that farm would not be exactly the same, in dollars and cents, 
as those shown in the table. 
Table 25. — Estimated cost of producing beef, per 100 pounds of gain at varying 
prices of corn, by rates of feeding corn and hay (847-pound steers, on feed 
138 days; all costs other than feed $11.20 per head; pork by-products 7| cents 
per pound) 
Corn input per head per day- 
Hay input per head (pounds per day) 
Cost with corn at 40 cents per bushel, 
hay at $10 per ton 
10 pounds 
15 pounds 
20 pounds 
25 pounds 
10 pounds 
15 pounds 
20 pounds 
25 pounds 
$12. 95 
$12. 63 
$12. 65 
12.16 
11.98 
11.96 
11.94 
11.78 
11.78 
12,65 
12.45 
12.40 
$12. 70 
12.04 
11.86 
Costs with corn at 50 cents per bushel, 
hay at $10 per ton 
$14. 07 
13. 55 
13.51 
14.51 
$13. 45 
13.12 
13.15 
Costs with corn at 60 cents per bushel, 
hay at $10 per ton 
10 pounds ! $15.17 
15 pounds 14.89 
20 pounds I 15.08 
25 pounds 16. 16 
$14. 60 
$14. 36 
14.45 
14.25 
14.66 
14.48 
15.86 
15.61 
$14.39 
14.20 
14.43 
From Table 25 it would appear that, under the conditions assumed, 
the gain would probably be produced at least cost by feeding 20 
pounds of corn per day and between 12 and 16 pounds of hay. with 
corn at 40 cents per bushel and hay at $10 per ton ; by feeding only 
15 pounds of corn and 16 to 20 pounds of hay when corn rose to 50 
cents per bushel; and by feeding 20 pounds (or possibly more) of 
hay and something less than 15 pounds of corn with corn at 60 cents. 
