Show advantages A OF ff BAB Y BEEF TRO 0 A 71 registered HEREFORD USED IN GRADING UP HERD prepared by the united states department of agriculture because the a consumer prefers the size and quality of the cuts cuta obtained from the car carcass of a well bred highly finished yearling the mar ciket price for what la 19 known as aa baby beef le Is usually botha both a little higher and a little more stable than that tor for any other class pt of cattle from the farmers point of dieny the production of baby beet means that he cau can detmore get more gains for the tha same quantity of feed than with cattle that chat he can tarn over the money invested in his live in a shorter time that he can obtain for his young heifers heffers approximately proximately lythe the same price as for his steers which Is ls not true when n marketing Is put off until the animals are older and that he can within limits defer or hasten the date of marketing as I 1 market conditions dictate por fornese rhese Fo these reasons the baby beet beef industry Is ln in creasing rapidly in popularity throughout the fie country in farmers bulletin the best methods of breeding and handling baby beeves are discussed in detail the first conclusion orthis of this publication Is that the right kinds of aws cows and bulls should be used in selecting cows from which baby beet beef Is to be produced three important factors factora should be kept to la mind 1 the cowa cows should have at least a fair amount of beet beef blood purebreds Pure breda tire are not necessary necessary but iwo wo or three crosses crosse sot 0 such bred breeding ing are ess essential estial cows with a preponderance of dairy hood blood will not do for the production of baby beef 2 cows best suited for thi jot breeding usually usually weigh OW pounds or oyer over in thrifty leeding breeding condition As long as early maturity Is not sacrificed the binai heavier er cows aia are the moat suitable S bitable for baby beef production sasse 1 et bf frampt fram cT rather thin iha n ichi weight should hwd govern the select selection ton of cows cow s which vre ara to be used tor fo rabis this purpose 8 the tha cows used to produce baby beeves L should produce i enough milk to keep the olves calves fat and grow growing lug without much additional teed feed up to weaning time 1 in addition to these thes ethree three factors i coloro size and early matur maturity alty should le be considered type of bulls to bo be used As a general rule it me y be said that lack of excellence in ani any one orall or all of the above points in the conmay cow may be offset through additional excellence lindbe lint la the be herd bull some bulls seem to have sufficient prepotency to stamp their own excellence of form type and quality qualify cupoo their calves regardless gard less of the kind hind af of cows in the herd such a bull Is a very valuable asset to any breeder avrit and it Is unfortunate that we cannot toll tell absolutely what a bull will do in this respect until his offspring are ara seen A bulf bul froin a li line neof of ancestry which ham ha been noted for its Oxel excellence lence of type quality milk producing ability an and early dearly maturity Is more than Ahan likely to be a producer of animals like himself this together with individual excellence cel lence in the bull Is the only standard we have for or forecasting the typo type of calves which an ad untried bull will ivill get for the producer of baby beef the additional sum sump paid nid for a good bull bul Is money anoney well spent above al i a breeder n sel selecting acting a bull should procure oneff good beef form and with a strong teb tendency dency toward earliness earil ness af pf of matur maturity ltv e T I 1 a very large largo extent the bleeders breeders bre bree eders deis success in raising and feeding baby beeves will depend upon the bulls ability to transmit a this latter character to fo ms calves e S quality and excellence of forn form le in calves be obtained from poor breeding calves suitable for baby beef calves to qualify as baby beet beef must hayo quality and finish the consi consumer finer does doe snot not want the yearling adlae and the calf that does not have quality will not take on a high finish neither will twill the calf lacking in early maturing qualities fatten during the latter lafter part of df the f feeding i period but instead it will ill use most att of the feed which I 1 it cons consumes difior for growth keeping this in mind the feeder should first determine whether whet lier his calves tire are good enough to competti compe tei on tsefat the fat yearling market and aad jale it he decides that they anro not they should bo be oft on colars coarser dr feeds fora for a later market the wide de deep e p 46 bodied died chick fleshed tishea cult calf with short legs and an abundance ce or of quality ns as ind indicated tested by fina fineness ness I 1 of hair texture jot of skid shin 8 smoothness bt bf flesh aud and ferral general about he head bead aind other parts of the body Is the 1 type best suited for making prime baby beet U uniformity lu in size weight dd color should not bo be overlooked because 7 such factors aie are an dd advantage vantage in marketing s these points ire aro of great uen importance in selecting col calvesto calves vesto to be finished as baby beef and w ad they do deive nerve the strictest a attention 0 t 1 1 A B r i s 1 the size of the breeding heid la Is la in practice t tice determined chiefly by the amount of pasture and the amount of roughage available great care must be taken that the pastures are pot overstocked over stocked good blue bluegrass grassor or clo clover vt r ahou should ld carry earry from 60 to corsper cow sper leies but on other pastures with the exception of wheat oats tor or other smal grains the capacity may run from 50 head to as low logaa as five head per 1 cr 6 sit ls la not profitable at pre pre 11 iva 11 g prices to buy roughage and as this I 1 hould constitute th the basal ration for i i to ie breeding cows it Is not usually adva advantageous for the farmer td bof at i ato 0 keep more than cabbe can be fed oo on the lome iome grown growa roughage at his dia po posa atho other hand bond the herds herd a shou 1 d be large enough for the owner to n arket at one time a carload of biby bab beeves or from 20 to 27 head bead in certain 1 instances there may be satisfactory and economical ways of disposing ot of the beeves inless in less tb than ancar car load tied Hots ot 8 but in general the expense lave in this method of marketing mt mallally maw lally 10 reduces the profits from f feeding |