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Show DAIRY FACTS EXPENSE OF SAVING CALVES Cost Just as Much to Raise Poor Ani-j Ani-j mal as a Good One Dispose of Culls Early In Life. Calf conspiration looks like a good thing to many of the wiseacres, says the Farmer's Guide, but Is It? Can the farmer afford to save the measly little specimens of bovluity that occasionally occa-sionally appear In the best herds? There are always some culls that cannot can-not be turned to good account either as breeders or for beef. If every calf dropped were a high-class Individual that could be raised and fed economically, econom-ically, the situation might be different. It costs just as much and sometimes more to raise a poor calf as a good one, and when you have It raised what Is It good for? Let the conservationist conservation-ist go out Into the open country and visit a number of farms where he can get next to the actual conditions; then let him study up on the economy of beef production and he may change his mind. Most certainly It Is wise to save the good calves, the kind that can be raised into profitable breeders, milk or beef producers, but the other kind had better be disposed of early In life before they have time to become be-come an expense. |