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is boiled to a jelly with the flax-seed and middlings. With western 

 stock- raisers, this means will rarely need to be resorted to, but it has 

 been found advantageous in dairy -farming districts where milk is so 

 valuable for butter and cheese. 



Profitable Mode of Feeding Veal Calves and 

 Young" Cattle If the calf is being fed for veal, it should have 

 all the milk it will drink direct from the cow until four or six 

 weeks old. If they will take it, a little corn-meal may be added. 

 No veal which has not been reared upon the mother's milk, or upon 

 whole milk directly from another cow, is really tit to eat. The 

 veal calf should have plenty of fresh air, and be constantly kept on 

 good, clean bedding; otherwise the veal may taste of the stables. 

 The space in which the veal calf is kept must be small. 



Profit and Value of Young 1 Beef In taking up the 

 subject of fattening cattle for beef, we desire to lay particular stress 

 upon the profit and advantage of young beef. The old idea that 

 beef should not be slaughtered under four years belongs to a time 

 before the present system of scientific care and early maturity had 

 become the rule, and has been exploded by experience. It is now 

 the accepted rule that the time for slaughter, or for marketing, is 

 whenever the beef animal is matured. It is evident, then, that the 

 earlier maturity is reached, the less will be the expense, the more 

 immediate the return, and the greater the profit. Early maturity 

 is attained by first securing the finest quality of blood, and next by 

 proper and scientific feeding. The value of beef brought to market 

 from eleven to twenty months old is thus illustrated in a paper in 

 the Royal Agricultural Journal: 



The age, rate, price and return per month for feeding is given 

 as follows: 



Return per 



month 

 Price, from birth. 



One eleven months old steer $ 74.50 $6.73 



" thirteen " " " 101.64 7.82 



Three fourteen " " heifers (average) 92.40 6.60 



" fifteen " " " " 101.64 6.67 



One sixteen " " steer 127.00 7.94 



Five " " " steers (average) 102.30 6.39 



One eighteen " " steer 115.50 6.42 



" " and one-half months steer 129.50 7.00 



Two " " " " steers 122.10 6.60 



"We might add ad infinitum evidence of similar nature showing 

 that beef slaughtered about nineteen or twenty months of age gives, 

 as the butchers say, complete pieces of beef, and the meat very 

 tender and of delicious flavor, consequently commanding the highest 

 price. Taking in view, then, the desirability of sending beef early 

 to market, and looking to the best proportions of a balance on the 



