Show I 1 A ELM an ARM FEEDERS SIDE OP OF BABY BEEF PLAN cattle feeders are arc becoming moro more interested in tile feeding of baby beaves with each successive season tile the advantages of baby beef feeding have often been published in which tile the changes in the demands of the consuming public bubile have been emphasized the cattle feeder may amny wonder if tile the feeding of baby beeves con can be justified by greater economy and increased profits in his own feed yards ards data proves that flint the production of choice handy bandy weight animals of the baby beef variety lias has sev bev oral economic advantages q the lie feeding of whiteface white face colorado calves wits haq compared compu ed with the feeding and two to year olds of tile the same type an and quality nt at the ohio agricultural ngu cultural experiment station it was shown that it takes a little longer to finish the calves as aa their average dally daily gilin gain per head bond wits was only pounds as compared wath pounds for the year ear lings and 2 05 pounds for the two year old steers of gains Is nn an important item but it Is the economy of gains which has a greater influence upon the purse or check book the calves put on pounds of gain nt at a cost of 1010 while it cost 1003 for the sanio same amount of gain on the 3 and 1213 for tile the two year olds calves are efficient converters of feeds into ment meat and into dollars when tho the returns over feed costs costa were computed compute ds for these three clashes of cattle the calves leil led by a wide mar gin the calves returned 1342 per hend over feed costs cost the yearnings yearlings year lings and the two year 5 ear olds only |