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under Dairy. Raising of baby beef is something of a specialty. As already 

 indicated, it takes a good breed and "good grade of good breed" to come 

 out with baby beef, forcing the calves right along to "maturity" or market 

 beef at the age of one or two years. It's clearly a problem for feeding. 

 The whole system is carefully outlined in the important section on Feeds 

 and Feeding. 



THE PROBLEM Briefly, the problem is How to cheat nature out of 



STATED four years; for nature, old slow-gait spendthrift, wants 



five years to develop a 1000 Ib. steer. To get that 



weight in one year you must feed way beyond the normal requirement; 

 and at the same time keep the animal's health and vigor for continued 

 growing. It is for just such conditions that we advise the more or less 

 regular use of Conkey's Stock Tonic in the daily ration. This Stock Tonic 

 is not in any sense a food; but it is a tonic, corrective, alterant and bracer, 

 which will keep the organs in good function during the forcing process. 

 In addition, the tonic is treated with certain condimental and other "salts" 

 to savor the feed, helping the natural appetite so that the forcing ration 

 will be accepted and digested. But read careful directions, page , and 

 also the paragraph on appetite in the section on Feeds and Feeding. 



It is a profitable thing to master, this feeding for baby beef. Heifers 

 fattened for beef at one to two years bring as much per pound as steers. 

 Besides, there is the extra short feeding period for both heifers and steers, 

 as against the three years' feeding period for full grown beef cattle. The 

 stockman saves feed stuff and gets more turnovers for his capital invested. 

 Every dollar in baby beef keeps busy season after season. Needless to 

 say it is this nimble exercise of turning it over that gives growth to a 

 dollar. 



IV. Beef Breeds 



Good-bye, Cattle King! 



Guess it's better for all of us the old extravagant days of the 

 frontier range are gone forever, the land now cut up in improved allot- 

 ments, and the beef herds gathered in smaller compass. There's a chance 

 for more of us in the business, and a better show for the dollars. We 

 may lose something in long horn and cowboy equipment; but we can 

 still get that, when we want it, in moving picture shows and Eastern 

 melodrama. 



This is the day of concentration of time, energy and money: more 

 cattle in smaller space; more beef per head of cattle; quicker, better finish 

 for market; more expensive feed and more of it; but bigger, better, safer 

 profits. 



Any kind of cattle, with any kind of horns, and any length of leg, were 

 utilized under the old system of raising beef for market. But today the 

 market demand is higher. A steer must grow right along and be quick 

 about it. We need the money. He must have plenty of good high-price 

 cuts, and not so much cheap neck, etc. He shouldn't walk on stilts these 

 long leg bones increase the percent of waste as "butcher's offal." 



