Show MEDIUM STEERS profitable do de kalb county III farmer la is of opinion that grade stuff Is superior the prime feeder steer so BO often cited as the best beef making machine Is sometimes les ft a less profitable animal according to a de kalb county ili cattle feeder then than the pieer of poorer quality tills this man lias has hat had experience with both kinds and regularly feeds eight to ten carloads a year the prime steer undoubtedly will produce a better killer than the poorer quality animal but it Is his big belief that the difference in price Is less lebs on the hnIs finished heI animals than it Is on the feeders the kind of steers he now mv buys it has been possible to purchase as feeders at about 1 cent less then than the price of tile best ones when finished und and put on the market these steers ordinarily have sold about halt a cent lower than steers of tile the other quality qua alty he figures that his cost of gain Is about the same as that of the athers thus there Is an advantage of on one half balf cent a pound in ic feeding this second grade stuff instead of the very best |