Show FEEDING CHOICE CATTLE IS BES BEST T buy fewer and keep them couple months longer it if you prefer to feed choice grades of cattle why not buy fewer of them and teed feed them a couple of months longer this la 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 Ld advantages vantages of feeding 1 lower 0 grades and choice grades af cattle dont make the mistake of buying the grade that Is selling to best advantage when you purchase your feeders says gerlaugh during the summer and fall months well binl finished shed 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 continues the runs run of grass cattle almost disappear and the number of cattle coming from corn belt feed lots increases until by spring the plainer grades of cattle are found selling dangerously near to the price of choice grades the lower grades ot of tat cattle invariably show more margin for the feeder during the winter feeding season than do the i choice gr grades a des although they handle feed less efficiently the summer market Is generally miller higher than the spring market for fat cattle and a longer feeding period Is required re to bring out the good qualities of choice grales grades of cattle because of these market trends and feeding facts Ger gerlaugh faugh suggests that choice grades of cattle be fed longer tocarra to carry them over into the period of higher prices in the summer and fall rather than feed lower gra grades les and sell them on a glutted spring market |