[Contents:] The Importance of Beef Cattle --- Westward Movement of the Beef-Cattle Industry --- Purebred Beef Cattle --- Areas of Beef Production --- Cost of Beef Production (Raising Calves and Fattening Baby Beeves – Beef Cattle Fattening Costs – Variation in the Cost of Fattening Cattle – Costs at Different Corn-Price Levels – Price Returned for Corn by Winter-Fed Cattle – Importance of Credit for Beef Production) --- Marketing Beef Cattle (Modern Methods of Marketing Beef Cattle – Cattle Markets – Seasonal Movements of Cattle – Price a Factor in Cattle Marketing – Cattle Prices Expressed in Corn and Purchasing Power – Live Steer Prices Compared with Beef – Cattle Prices and General Commodity Prices – Standardized Grades for Cattle and Beef) --- Consumption of Beef --- Trend of Beef Production --- Bulletins Relating to Beef Cattle.
