WHAT AGE FOE BEEF. 



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an article for the Royal Agricultural Journal, giving the 

 experience of various eminent farmers in raising 



"BABY BEEF." 



This beef is from steers and heifers brought to market 

 at from eleven to twenty months old. The points made in 

 this article of Mr. Evershed's are so important, and have 

 such a material bearing upon the true course to be followed 

 in beef raising in some parts of the United States, that we 

 shall make sufficient extracts to show the mode of doing it 

 and the results. Mr. Stanford, of Charlton Court, is stated 

 as having lately sold the following high-grade Short-horns 

 at the following ages and prices : 



It does not appear what the individual weights of these 

 " baby-beef " animals were, but the price, net weight, is 

 given at an equivalent of sixteen to eighteen cents per 

 pound, probably according to our New York custom, 

 counting only the four quarters. 



Mr. Evershed remarks: 



" The above figures show that tolerably- bred Short-horns 

 will return seven shillings a week from birth on this system, 

 at from thirteen to eighteen months old. Those Short-horns 

 which afford the least return were bought in the market, 

 and those which gave the highest were by Mr. Stanford's 

 pedigree bull, out of his well-bred, but not pedigree cows. 



