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Show JXA.M'KWOHroiVi J offer an economical means of producing produc-ing choice light beef which is in the greatest demand at the markets, and veils at relatively higher prices. The importance of good breeding and good quality feeds can hardly be over-fir, over-fir, phasized. In answer to the growing public demand de-mand for small cuts.of beef from tidy, well-finished carcasses, University of California authorities are encouraging demonstrations of "creep feeding" of calves on several ranches in the state. This method consists of putting in feed troughs near central watering places and salt licks, and putting in fences that will not permit the cow to gain access to the feed but with smaller openings through which the calves can get to the feed. The calves are given access to grain feed rations when four to six weeks of age, while the cows remain on pasture. pas-ture. Thus the calves continue to nurse their mothers but at the same lime obtain concentrate feeds. At times it is necessary to supplement pasture feeds for the cows in order to maintain a good milk flow. A very small amount of feed is required re-quired per calf, yet the little fellows make excellent and rapid gains until af.er a period of seven or eight months the calves are almost as large as their mothers, particularly if they happen to be first calf heifers of the usual Arizona type. In going over a recent demonstration, we find thai the calves at the outset ate only .58 pound of feed per day. In the next month, the average increased to 1.88 pounds, while during the closing months of the test, the calves required 4.18 to 5.31 pounds per day. After eight months of creep feeding, one lot of calves weighed. 545 pounds, and the youngest lot 421 pounds. They were then placed in feedlots and t ho. cows turned back on pasture. I he calves gained an average of better bet-ter than 2.5 pounds a day, eating what they wanted from self-feeders. After seventy-four days in the feedlot, the oldest lot, none of which was yet a year old, averaged 734 pounds, after a three per cent shrink. Not every ranch is equipped for creep feeding of calves. Important requirements re-quirements appear to be: well bred cows; good quality, thick and deep bodied bulls; central watering places; good pastures. i, mixed home-grown feeds of good quality. Given these requirements, re-quirements, creep feeding appears to |