. Types and market classes of live stock. Fig. 24. Common or Inferior Feeder. the back, and either too fine or too heavy in bone. Goodfeeders will finish into good fat steers, or perhaps may makethe choice grade. Medium feeders.—These are very much lacking in form,quality, and constitution, and very seldom grade higher thanmedium when fattened. Many of them are off-colored andspotted and bear little promise of accomplishing anything 98 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock noteworthy on feed. Marketmen refer to such cattle asdoggy. Common feeders.—These are common in quality, confor-mation, a
. Types and market classes of live stock. Fig. 24. Common or Inferior Feeder. the back, and either too fine or too heavy in bone. Goodfeeders will finish into good fat steers, or perhaps may makethe choice grade. Medium feeders.—These are very much lacking in form,quality, and constitution, and very seldom grade higher thanmedium when fattened. Many of them are off-colored andspotted and bear little promise of accomplishing anything 98 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock noteworthy on feed. Marketmen refer to such cattle asdoggy. Common feeders.—These are common in quality, confor-mation, and condition. It seldom pays to feed them. Dairy-type steers classify here. Feeder bulls.—These are young bulls of good beef the supply and the demand are limited. Stockers.—Thin yearling steers are not in much demandas feeders so long as the supply of two-year-olds is large. Fig. 25. Fancy Selected Stocker Calves. enough to satisfy feeder demands. The yearlings are mostlyavailable for stocker purposes and are quoted in market re-ports as yearling stockers. They are such cattle as will,after a summer on grass and good wintering, be suitable toput on grain feed. Most of the stocker trade, however, is inheifers which when sent to the country are used for grazingand for breeding purposes. The better ones have considerablebeef blood and good square frames. They are too thin toclassify as butcher stock, and are too good in form andquality to sell at the low prices paid for cutters and are graded on the same basis as feeders. Stock and feeding cows.—A rather common practice isto buy thin cows showing evidences of beef breeding, turn Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 99 them on pasture and breed them, rough them through thewinter, and the next season, after their calves are weaned,fatten them off for market, retaining the calves for feedin
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