Spaying Heifers on Western 

 Ranches' 



By A. W. Whitehouse, D. V. S., Boulden Colorado 



Calls for this work on the part of the cow- 

 men are not at all regular, and depend on three 

 factors: the demand for breeding she-stock, the 

 price at market points on fat open-cows and 

 heifers, and the amount of available grazing. 

 Perhaps the most important of these is the price 

 of fat open-cows. When, as at present, these sell 

 within a dollar or a dollar and a quarter of steers 

 of similar breeding, very little spaying will be 

 done. There is now no discrimination at mar- 

 ket points against spayed heifers as such, and 

 they sell on their merits at a price fully equal to 

 steers in similar condition. This is as it should 

 be, for they certainly dress out as well as steers, 

 and sometimes better. 



'Reprinted fron the Amtriemn Journal •/ V»t*Tina,ry Mtdioin*, 

 April. 1911. 



