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It may be well to note at the outset, however, that there has 

 been a very strong tendency in this direction within the last 

 third of a century. In other words, baby beef is quite another 

 thing from what it was even twenty-five years ago. Then a 

 30 months old steer weighing 1,400 pounds would have been 

 classed as baby beef, and it would really have been a baby, con> 



HEAVY BULLOCKS FAT ENOUGH TO TOP THE MARKET FOR THEIR CLASS. 

 USED IN THE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF AGE UPON THE COST OF 

 GAIN. 



TWELVE MONTHS OLD CALVES WEIGHING 900 LBS. AND READY FOR THE 

 MARKET AT A PROFIT TO THE MAN WHO BRED AND RAISED THEM, AS 

 WELL AS TO THE MAN WHO FED THEM. USED IN THE E!XPERIMENTS IK 

 REGARD TO INFLUENCE OF AGE UPON COST OF GAIN. 



pared with the 3, 4 or 5 year old bullocks then standard on the 

 market weighing from 1,600 to 1,800 or even 2,000 pounds 

 thick fat and hard. One of our reporters, Mr. G. A. Bradford, 

 a veteran feeder of Boone County, Missouri, reports the sale 

 in the early sixties of a carload of cattle weighing an average 



