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From a survey of seventy farms and 4,380 head of cattle, we find that the average carload shipment is about three care per cattlemen in Southwest Virginia allowing twenty head to the car, this would mean sixty per year. At this rate the farmer that fed silage would have made $36,372.00. The farmer that fed hay and straw would have made $17,925.00 and the farmer that fed stover and corn meal would have made $8,433.60. The cost of silage for the twenty-six years was $412.04, for hay and straw $521.54, and for stover and corn meal $439.70.","abstract_html":"The farmer that fed silage made a profit of $606.20 for the twenty-six years or had received an average profit of $23.31 each year per steer. The farmer that fed hay and straw made a profit of $298.76 for the twenty-six years or an average profit of $11.49 each year per steer. The farmer that fed stover and corn meal made a profit of $140.56 for the twenty-six years or an average profit each year of $5.40 per steer. From a survey of seventy farms and 4,380 head of cattle, we find that the average carload shipment is about three care per cattlemen in Southwest Virginia allowing twenty head to the car, this would mean sixty per year. At this rate the farmer that fed silage would have made $36,372.00. The farmer that fed hay and straw would have made $17,925.00 and the farmer that fed stover and corn meal would have made $8,433.60. The cost of silage for the twenty-six years was $412.04, for hay and straw $521.54, and for stover and corn meal $439.70.","abstract_has_math":true,"creators":["Nelson, G. 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