A RANCHMAN^S RECOLLECTIONS 



In the years during which the International classes 

 have dropped out the three-year-olds and the cham- 

 pionships gone to yearlings until a great feeder like 

 John G. Imboden asserts that there should be two 

 championships, one for two's and one for yearlings, 

 because the two's no longer have a look-in; when the 

 yearling markets are on the average higher than for 

 the heavier classes; when we no longer read that 

 flavor only comes with age; when the Department of 

 Agriculture is insistent that the economic production 

 of finished beef is in the yearling class, it would seem 

 that calves at weaning time, furnished in great num- 

 bers from the ranges, have come to stay. My own 

 part in the change has been much smaller than I am 

 often credited with; it has simply been the logical 

 result of a study made by feeders, abetted by the 

 splendid work of agricultural colleges, and the re- 

 search work of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



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