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Twenty -four Rappahannock .farmers attended the beef cattle grading demonstration at “Clover Hill” farm, Woodville, on Friday, September 28, and from followup accounts, enjoyed the work and words of Messrs. Dalton and Jim* my SheUburne Very much, as .well as the hospitality of the OTBannons.
Dalton explained that Hie difference between grades of feeder cattle had proven to be 12 bbis. of corn and 36 days earlier marketing in Experiment Station feed lots; Also that given the opportunity, a feeder steer of one grade could be marketed in one grade higher as a finished product.
Since prime cattle fetch top slaughter prices and require lees Corn and less time to reach-this grade, you can ponder the whjrs and wherefors of producing or purchasing the best possible. In grading finished cattle about onethird is based on conformation, one-third on finish, and the balance on type (the first impression an animal makes on your mind's eye—or, described by some, as the reason a man stops, turns around and looks at a slick chick he has met on the street—gives a long, low whistle and thenwell, you know that's “tpya.” —
®»eh of the feeder steers eras graded by Jimmy Shelburne, who gave his reasons for each, and was permanently identified. Maurice O'Bannon planned to weigh each steer and check rate of gain through the feeding period at the end of which -each steer will be graded as a finished product on the hoof and, we hope, in the carcass. 5
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