Show STOCK B NEW FEEDING CHOICE CATTLE IS BEST buy fewer and keep them couple months longer if you prefer to feed choice grades of cattle why not buy fewer of them and feed them a couple of months longer this Is a question that paul gerlaugh chief of animal industry at the ohio agricultural experiment station puts to farmers who query him about the relative of feeding lower grades and choice grades grade of cattle dont make the mistake of buying the grade that is selling to best advantage when you purchase your feeders says gerlaugh Oer laugh during the summer and fall all months well finished corn fed cattle usually sell at a relatively high market price when compared with grass or feeder cattle from the range but by winter he be continues the runs of grass cattle almost disappear and the number of cattle coming arora roni corn belt feed lots increases until by spring the plainer grades brailes of cattle are found selling dangerously near to the price of choice grades the lower grades of fat cattle invariably show more margin for the feeder during the w winter liter feeding season than do the choice grades although though ni they handle feed less efficiently the summer market Is generally higher than the spring market for fat cattle and a longer feeding period Is r required L to bring out tile the rood good q u a gitles of c choice bolce grales grades of cattle because of these market trends and feeding facts Ge gerlaugh suggests that choice grades of cattle be fed longer to carry them over into the period ot of higher prices in fit the summer and fall rather than feed lower gr grades ades and sell them on a glutted spring market trial ket |