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to resist disease and climatic rigours. Those, how- 

 ever, who do not feel justified in laying out such a 

 sum as would be required for a herd of these excellent 

 animals would be well advised to expend their 

 money in " dogies " — viz., yearling calves, fed from 

 their birth on skim milk until weaning time 

 (" bobbed," as it is called down east) — which are 

 shipped up in considerable quantities to the prairie 

 country by farmers and dairymen in the Eastern 

 Provinces and Manitoba. Under these conditions, 

 it is not to be expected that they would develop so 

 well or be ready for beef within the same period as 

 " salted " range stock, whose calves run with their 

 mothers for six months or so before weaning. Under 

 favourable conditions, and given a good season, 

 range stock should be ready for the buyer at the end 

 of three years, and " dogies " in about four years. 



Another choice lies before the intending rancher, 

 which it would be well to put before him when about 

 to select his bunch, whether of range stock or 

 " dogies," and that is the question of running a 

 given number of steers with the object of ultimately 

 maturing them into " beeves," or a mixed herd and 

 bulls, with a view to breeding for the same object. 

 By adopting the former plan, the trouble and anxiety 

 at calving-time is obviated ; but should a severe 

 winter occasion loss, it would entail the purchase of 



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