Show 5 IA I r A t COMPARE COMPA RE HEIFERS AS BEEF MAKERS well finished light animals are most popular prepared by the united states department 0 of agriculture service in 11 con paring the meat producing abilities of well bred heifers and steers recently the united states department of agriculture and seven state expert meat ment stations disproved some of the arguments which have been advanced in support of the long standing poeju dice against heifer beef one of the most interesting and am in facts discovered by the haves ti gators Is that the meat from well finished heifers Is equally as palatable as that from steers when the two are slaughtered at the same age al moreover ore in these experiments the dress ing percentage of the heifers was fully as high as that of the steers in the course of their studies on ou the relative merits of the two sexes as meat producers the investigators like wise found that yearling elfers heifers li erdl harily reach an acceptable market fin ish more quickly and at ligi ter weight than do steers of breeding and feeding it follows of course that the heifers become sooner than the steers when the feeding Is continued these research findings are cant in view of the present market demand for lighter weight carcasses of good finish the department sas sacs the housewife likes to buy small but well finished cuts of beef sl SI e likes steak thick if not otherwise too large and would buy roasts more often if she could always get them small enough the well finished light heifer before she becomes ful fills tt ti ese requirements this study has uncovered some facts which should be of marked benefit not only to the consuming public but also to the producer the meat packer and the ret iller tiller the department says the agricultural experiment stations of arkansas colorado michigan Mir bigin mis alls bourl mississippi ohio and illinois in co operation with the united states department of agriculture fed out about head of cattle about half of which were heifers and half steers during these experiments dehorning calves most profitable practice horns and choice beef carcasses don t go together dehorned beef cat tie bring more than horned cattle of similar quality and condition for a great many rell sons too dairy animals not intended for show pur poses are best de horned you have most likely either witnessed wit nessel or heard of the wrath of some animal that ended in a serious goring of some un fortunate fellow critter if not a bu man tn you have seen fences and equipment destroyed by unruly ani ant mals allowed to parade around with weapons which under the protection of man they no longer need in the range country saws and mechanical ch dehorn debor ners ers are used to re move horns horni A simpler and more hu he mane way to dehorn Is through the use of chemicals applied to the horn buttons of young animals before the horns appear some of the lead ng stock remedy houses have developed very satisfactory preparations for tl if e purpose all ani they are sold very rea these preparations destroy the tissues which would otherwise develop into horns tl e chemic chemicals ils are in the form of paste that stays stave right where you put it they are safe practically painless and they do the work feeding balanced ration to pigs always favored the hum of the threshing machine cylinders will be music to swine on farms where corn cribs and gran aries arles ha e been bare for some time on most dairy farms where swine are also produced grain Is conserved for the dairy herd and the must be satisfied with what they can get in a good many cases this is skim milk mill and vanous degrees of tv an ani kinds of forage nothing is better for pigs than skim SlAm milk and green forage but they are not enough for a w ell balanced rat on pigs do not do well on rations that thit are not well balanced when they do not do well they do not return good prices f r the he feeds consumed no matter how excellent their quality barley and oats are now available for pig fed fead on many farms it 14 1 just as bad to go too far the other way and feed pigs nothing hut but barley birley and oats there is no uncertainty about the results of feeding poorly balin balanced ced rations to pigs feed with care one place where many farmers could be saving then selves hundreds of colars dol ars Is in feeing horses with nith more care cire c ire alchi ing aft to R 11 wile wil of the universo ty tv of ill nois I 1 11 1 8 Is revealed says mr air wile x in rec ris which farmers are keeping in coop aeration ith the farm organic t ion and management department at tie tte university univ universo ersty ty between two typical cen en aral illinois farms a available records show that there was a d fforence of a year in horse labor cost |