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Omaha. This excellent beef type is especially 

 noticeable in the calves marketed and shows to its 

 best advantage in the finishing of calves for baby 

 beef. Their active life upon the open range, usually 

 with an abundance of feed, has given them a good 

 frame and has developed a large feeding capacity, 

 and these characteristics are made use of when the 

 calf is put in the feed lot in the fall. 



Another source from which large numbers of 

 calves are drawn for early feeding are the dairy 

 farms which are so situated as not to be able to 

 raise the calves to maturity. These farms are 

 found especially in dairy districts contiguous to 

 large cities which furnish a market for all the milk 

 produced at such prices that it is often thought un- 

 profitable to use the milk for feeding calves. A 

 good many of the calves from these dairies are sold 

 as veal, but large numbers are also fed on milk for 

 a short time, until they are able to eat grain and 

 other concentrated feeds. They may be purchased 

 at very reasonable prices as soon as they are old 

 enough to eat grain and are taken to farms in the 

 grain-growing districts. It is often possible for the 

 farmer who is favorably situated for feeding to buy 

 one or more carloads of calves each year in his own 

 immediate neighborhood by picking up a few in 

 each place. The high price of land and the grow- 

 ing scarcity of grazing land makes it imperative 

 that stock of this kind shall be finished and mar- 

 keted immediately, and so the greater number of 

 these animals purchased at random throughout the 

 country are fattened and marketed under two years 

 old. 



As has already been explained, the very best class 

 of baby beef is produced from calves of the most 

 pronounced beef type. It does not necessarily fol- 



