Show Co Agent Says BY COUNTY AGENT DEL C. C PURNELL Researchers have found that satisfactory beef can be produced faster and more efficiently ef ef- from young bulls 18 months of age or less than from steers Dr Doyle J. J Matthews Extension animal husbandman cites tho following results from western research c n- n in Nevada where studies of tit a 89 IIA grade weanling calves were conducted From Erom among 40 bulls and 40 steers the bulls gained gamed more rapidly had a higher ratio of lean meat to fat and a higher percentage percentage percentage per per- of round loin rib and chuck Though the meat from the steers was slightly more tender and lighter colored there was more separable lean meat in the rib-eye rib area of the bulls in the tenth ninth-tenth- eleventh rib cut Dr Matthews explained that natural hormones in the bulls were responsible for them gaining faster and more efficiently efficiently efficiently effi effi- than the steers even when steers were implanted with the hormone diethyl stil to increase their feed efficiency The greater efficiency efficiency effi effi- and other advantages would make it preferable to raise bulls for beef if traditional traditional ideas about marketing could be changed |