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Excerpt from Fattening Steers on Summer Pasture in the South The cost of gains was lower than In the previous year, attributable to the more rapid gains made In 1913 and the Slightly cheaper feeds. The pasture, charged at 50 cents a head for each 28 -day period, cost $2. 62 per steer throughout the 147 -day period. This, of course, was the entire feed charge against the steers of lot 1. It cost a head to pasture and feed the steers of lot 2, and $10. 12 a head for those of lot 3. The rapid gains of the steers in lot 3, however, made the cost Of gains lowei than those Of lot 2, although the latter were getting cheaper feed. The steers were sold by farm weights less 3 per Cent shrinkage, and were Shipped to Meridian, Miss. For Slaughter. All. Were not Shipped at the close Of'the experiment, SO that the slaughter records were not Obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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