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Show TYPES OF BABY-BEEF COWS Three Very Important Factors Should Be Kept in Mind in Making Proper Selection. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) In selecting cows from which babv beef is to be produced, three very important im-portant factors should be kept In mind : 1. The cows should have at least & fair amount of beef blood. Purebreds are not necessary, but two or three crosses of such breeding is essential. Cows with a preponderance of dairy blood will not do for the production of baby beef. 2. Cows best suited for this type of breeding usually weigh 900 pounds or over in thrifty breeding condition. So long as early maturity is not sacrificed, sacri-ficed, the heavier cows are the most suitable for baby-beef production. Size of frame rather than weight should govern in selecting cows which are to be used for this purpose. 3. The cows used to produce baby beeves should produce enough milk to keep the calves fat and growing without with-out much additional feed up to wean Ing time. In addition to these three factors, such things as constitution, uniformity of breeding, color, size, and early maturity ma-turity should be considered. |
