Rich County Reaper | 1931-08-14 | Page 4 | Select Young Animals for the Feeder Stock

select young animals for the feeder stock buy them young and keep them going from the start this seems to be the best advice to the farmer who plans to buy feeder stock according to results of a three years feeding experiment at iowa state college steer calves purchased in the early winter and full fed in dry lot until finished for market proved in three different years to be more profitable for the producer than yearlings yearnings year lings or two year old A longer time was required to fatten the calves but they required less feed for the hundredweight dweight of gain sold on a higher market and returned a greater margin over feed costs next to the calves ranked the year hags although there was a close margin between them and the two year olds the two year olds required more feed per hundredweight of gain sold for a much lower price than the calves and lower than tho the yearlings yearnings year lings two years yeara out of three and returned less margin of profit over feed cost than either the calves or the year