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sand pounds original weight. Suppose this animal weighed only 500 

 pounds, you paid $20 for him and you put on the same gain, namely 

 360 pounds. You then have 860 pounds. You sell him for $51.60. At 

 six cents a pound you have the same $21.60 profit that you had before, 

 but you have only $10 for finishing the 500 pounds original weight 

 instead of $20, and that is why it is sometimes better to feed two-year- 

 olds than calves or yearlings, because you get an increased value on 

 their original weight. 



The condition of the animal has a bearing upon this question of 

 age. If we buy calves, most of which have not yet been weaned, they 

 are usually in prime condition. Such calves will at first lose rather 

 than gain when placed on feeds. 



Go to the market and buy range cattle after they have come 400 

 miles to the market and have been eating stock yards hay a while and 

 they willl be in good condition to put on gain rapidly and that is an- 

 other reason why it may not always be more profitable to feed young 

 cattle. 



Now I do not want to be understood as saying that it does not 

 pay to feed young cattle. I have been discussing this question from 

 only one view point — the standpoint of the big feeder who buys his 

 cattle, and not from the standpoint of the man who raises his cattle. 

 The man who raises his cattle is a very short sighted man if he fails 

 to feed those cattle from the time they are born until they are ready 

 to go to the market. This is where we get baby beef and that is why it 

 is always profitable. It is unwise and unprofitable for a man who raises 

 a good grade of cattle to keep them until they are two years old. This 

 is a losing business. He should always feed them well and sell them at 

 a young age. 



THE PERCHERON AND FRENCH COACH HORSE FOR THE 

 AMERICAN FARMER AND BREEDER. 



(Mr. W. M'Laughlin, Kansas City, Mo.) 



It is a well-known truth that the horses of a country partake to 

 a very large extent of the characteristics of the people of that country. 

 The people who inhabit Normandy, in the northern part of France, 

 the country in which are raised both the Percheron and French Coach- 

 ers, are not the sort of people whom Americans ordinarily think of 

 as Frenchmen. These people partake fully as much of their ancestors 



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