[PDF] Cattle Raising On The Plains eBook

Author : Baron Walter Von Richthofen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230379661

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... Southern and tempdrate districts at two or less per cent. The annual cost'of herding the cattle, as I have shown in a previous chapter, is about seventy cents per head; adding the other expenses, such as taxes, loss of interest on the purchase-money of land, etc., we find that the entire annual expense is less than $1.50 per head. It takes a heifer-calf, say, three years to mature, and a steer-calf will be ready for the market in four years. The latter will then bring forty dollars; deducting the six dollars of expense for his rearing, we have a net profit of thirty-four dollars on each steer. Now let me illustrate the profits realized from one Texas cow, worth thirty dollars. In ten years she will have eight calves, which, if they are all steers, will have produced at the end of fourteen years $320, or a profit of $272. The cow herself still remains, and is worth about her original cost for the butcher. These figures are made without reference to any increase in the value of cattle or beef, and without reference to any improvement of the stock by crossing it with better blood. The next thing to consider is the natural increase of cattle. I will give my opinion first, and then state those of some of the most experienced cattlemen. I think that seventy-five or eighty per cent of the cows will drop one calf each every year, and that the mortality among these calves will be affected by the mildness or rigor of the climate. The loss of winter-born calves is very small in the Southern portion of the country, but increases as you go North. Therefore I conclude that, for breeding purposes, a more southerly located range is preferable. With the liberal use of bulls, which means at least one bull for every twenty-five cows, which should be strong...

Author : John T. Schlebecker
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
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Story of the evolution on the cattle industry from what had been an adventurous way of life into a profession.

Author : Baron Walter Von Richthofen
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
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ISBN : 9781358059681

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