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Show sMjvestock: BSituaLUorLj i I .Ha. N'VroKt6A - f i buying, the man who properly finishes fin-ishes his calves will be paid accordingly. accord-ingly. Aside from the value to the industry indus-try in making beef mere popular with the consumer, the utilization of home grown feeds, fertilization of the soil and building up a year around home supply of beef, the campaign has been valuable in pointing the way to more j profitable operations for the average range cattle feeder. The use of this supplemental feed means that the cat- tie- fatten quicker, range feed is con-; con-; served, and by putting cattle on the market 30 days earlier ahead of the general marketing of grass-fat cattle, cat-tle, the individual operator is able to make more money and we are gradually grad-ually getting away from burdensome seasonal receipts on the market. Revolutionary changes are taking place in the cattle business, all the way from brer-ding optratoins on the range to the distribution of beef. Economic Ec-onomic pressure is, ox course, responsible respons-ible for the v'dzt majority of changes, yet c-itrun agencies who have p'oneer--! no vaulting in more profitable profit-able operations should be credited v ith inaugurating policies which have -'re-- proven to be valuable. A jrrocl. deal has been written about the trend from the aged steer, with 'he heavy beef carcass, to the present day younger animals, termed in the trails as "baby bc-ef". Due to the fact that the range finishing of yearlings is a rather difficult proposition, the western country was slower to turn to the marketing of young cattle than in the Middle West, where dry feeds have been used for several generations. genera-tions. It was about five years ago that the interests associated with the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards started a progressive campaign to encourage the feeding and production of baby beef on the Pacific Coast. The organization organ-ization advocated the selection of well bred calves, carefully selected from herds where good grade cows and pure bred, registered bulls had been used. Orchardists and "small farm-, ors" were encouraged, and to some extent financed, at the outset, so that homegrown feeds could be utilized and in order to provide "home grown" fertilizers to enrich the soil. Good, j growthy young calves were taken di- j rectly from their mothers, and placed on concentrated feeds. Animals j weighing from 300 to 400 pounds proved to be the best feeders and to make the -most profitable gains. It devloped that the Pacific Coat meat distributors found the 700 to 850 pound finished animals. best suit-, ed for their trade requirements, al- i though animals weighing up to 1,000 pounds or better, ordinarily received j good attention from distributors. A ! carcass which does not carry too much waste and kidney fats proves to be the most popular, and under proper feeding feed-ing methods, the beef is tender and delicious, as the fat particles are well distributed through the lean meat. Like all pioneering efforts, at the outset the project was fraught w'th a great many complications. Some feeders attempted to put on the mar- i ket anything from dairy breeds to very common beef breeds, which in the nature of things, would never produce baby beef. Meat distributors who were unwilling to pay the additional eost per pound of real baby beef, attempted at-tempted to sell to their patrons common com-mon and ordinary meat from unfin-. ished young stock, taking advantage ! of the advertising and publicity ac-: corded the baby beef campaign. This proved to be one of the most difficult obstacls to the success of the campaign, cam-paign, but has been partly overcome through the trade marking and stamping stamp-ing of carcasses. There are now something like 10,-000 10,-000 baby beeves being fed in the territory ter-ritory tributary to the Los Angelas market, an indication of the success of the campaign. j Often, those who attempt to feed baby beeves do not properly finish the calves. Unless the cattle "dress out" at least 58 to 60 per cent, they can hardly come under the brby beef classification. It means that it is necessary to put real feed into the calves. The higher the yield of good salable meat, the more valuable the beef animal to the meat distributor, and ultimately, through competitive |