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well, gaining an average of a little over 2 pounds per head 

 per day. 



Having mentioned this experiment to a farmer, who sold 

 his milk for city consumption, yet desired to raise a half 

 dozen calves, he tried the same formula and reported a 

 gain per day for 60 days of 2M Ibs. per head. In our ex- 

 periment we boiled hay cut % of an inch long, and 3 Ibs. 

 for each calf, half an hour, and then the short hay was 

 raised upon a wire-cloth sieve over the kettle and drained, 

 whilst the flax-seed and middlings were put into the kettle 

 and boiled to a jelly. The plan might be carried out on a 

 large scale at little cost per calf. 



WHAT AGE FOB BEEF? 



This is a vital question at the entrance of the discussion 

 of the cattle-growing business. The attention of the 

 American farmer has been strongly called to the profitable 

 age for beef by the great increase in our exports of live 

 cattle during the last few years. The appreciation of 

 English consumers of our best cattle offers every induce- 

 ment for perseverance in improving our methods and cheap- 

 ening our results to the greatest extent. The greater the 

 value we can concentrate into an animal of 1,600 Ibs., within 

 the shortest time, or into a ton of dead meat, the greater 

 will be our profit. The consumption of meat by the people 

 of Great Britain and of Europe is much less per capita 

 than in the United States, and a large increase is reasonably 

 to be expected when the best quality of meat shall be 

 offered them. The uneasiness of English farmers, excited 

 when our exports of dead meats first commenced, has, hap- 

 pily, been quieted by a reasonable consideration of the fact 

 that their home demand for meat is much greater than 

 they can supply. There is room for their own and all we 

 can send. We have only to study how to produce the best 

 quality at the least cost ; and we may in this learn a valua- 



