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not a lump of diseased beef. The young bull gets 

 time to enter on his new world with his eyes open 

 and to assume its responsibilities in a normal 

 manner, instead of driving him to his destiny half 

 mad. The high reproductive power of Irish seed 

 is attributed to the slow gentleness of the climate 

 in maturing the grain, and the animal organism is 

 not more likely to escape the ills of violent haste in 

 the process of maturing. One of the best young 

 bulls I ever had, but badly overfed at this critical 

 period, behaved in such an extraordinary manner 

 that one might expect to get a pedigree calf out 

 of every bush in the neighbourhood next season, 

 and he continued this until he looked a complete 

 wreck ; but once relieved of his capacity to make 

 himself incapable, he began to thrive at once, and 

 made one of the handsomest bullocks I ever saw, 

 though somewhat undersized for his breeding. 



That is largely how the young bulls are 

 destroyed, and even the seller has not a penny by 

 it, while the buyer is badly injured. The seller 

 has paid his money out of his pocket to destroy 

 his bull, and the buyer stands to lose more, while 

 the loss to the public is much the greatest of all. 

 During the three months of transition from 

 infant to adult life, my bulls look somewhat 

 below par, but so far, I have never sold a bull 

 that has not turned out surprisingly satisfactory. 

 There can be no doubt that the bulk of the 

 destruction is due to the greed of underfeeding the 

 calves when they ought to be well fed, and then 

 trying to make them marketable by the over- 



