Excerpt from Crops and Markets, Vol. 16: Published Monthly by the United States Department of Agriculture; April, 1939 Reports from a large number of Corn Belt feeders givmg the months m which they expected -to market cattle on feed April 1 show that the proportion to be marketed during the 3 months April through June, was a little larger than the very small pro portion reported last year, but was much below the proportion reported in any of the preceding 10 years. The proportion to be marketed after August 1 was the largest, with the exception of last year, in the 10 years. These marketing intentions reports would indicate that the supply of fed cattle would be larger than last year in most months from April through early fall, with the largest increases in July and August. The estimated numbers on feed April 1, 1939, as a percentage of the number on feed on April 1, 1938, by States, are as follows: Indicated Yield or Condition of Crops Apr. 1, 1939, With Com Hens and Pullets per Farm Flock 1 parisons [first day of each month. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.