. Types and market classes of live stock. d 775 pounds, and were charged at $ per cwt. Al-though the calves were fed for a longer period than the year-lings, the average cost of 100 pounds of gain was $ forthe calves, as compared with $ for the yearlings. Thecalves made a profit of $ per head, and the yearlings madea profit of $ The Indiana Experiment Station found that when feedprices were such that it cost $ to produce 100 pounds of Types and Market Classes of Live Stock ih gain on baby beeves, it cost $7,22 to make the same gain onyearlings, and $ on two-yea
. Types and market classes of live stock. d 775 pounds, and were charged at $ per cwt. Al-though the calves were fed for a longer period than the year-lings, the average cost of 100 pounds of gain was $ forthe calves, as compared with $ for the yearlings. Thecalves made a profit of $ per head, and the yearlings madea profit of $ The Indiana Experiment Station found that when feedprices were such that it cost $ to produce 100 pounds of Types and Market Classes of Live Stock ih gain on baby beeves, it cost $7,22 to make the same gain onyearlings, and $ on two-year-olds. Steer and Heifer Beef. The heading of this chapter, Fashions in Market Cattle,implies that the demands of the cattle market are subject tochange. The truth of this has been shown by the precedingdiscussion of the trend away from the old-time, heavy, ma-tured beeves, and toward the finishing of younger cattle. Theword, fashions, also implies that the market indulges insome practices that are not entirely utilitarian and Fig. 10. Prime Fat Heifer. but are more or less fanciful and whimsical. That this is truewill be shown by a consideration of the cattle markets dis-crimination against fat heifers as compared with fat the heifer is well fed, she is consigned to a lower classthan a steer of the same breeding, same fatness, same quality,same age and form. In some countries, heifers outsell steersfor beef purposes. In this country there is discrimination inprice against heifers on the market, and for that reason heif-ers are rarely as well fed as steers. 76 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock In September, 1892, Wilson and Curtiss, of the Iowa Ex-periment Station, purchased five steers and ten heifers andbegan an experiment to determine whether a discriminationagainst fat heifers is justifiable. All of these cattle were year-ling grade Shorthorns, all sired by the same bull. Five of theheifers were spayed soon after purchase, and all fifteen headwe
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