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Show I CORN-FED CATTLE HELD UNPROFITABLE VENTURE WASHINGTON. Sept 10. Cattle C( ding in Nebraska during the pasl mo yean wa a precarious venture, more likely to be unprofitable than nor the department of agriculture an-n an-n - inced In reporting the results of its first cost of production investigation In the business of cattle feeding .Similar Investigations are being madi In lows Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and reports re-ports poon will he made The average- cost of corn-fed cattlo in Nebraska laid down at 1 he m.irl.'. was 114.81 per hundred weight for 2,203 head fc-d In the winter of 10 1S-iyi9, 1S-iyi9, 13.sa for cattle during the winter win-ter of 1918.-1920 There was ail oragc loss per head ol IS 17 for the ry 1 s-1 !1 n fed cattle and of $10 till for the group fed last winter. t on |