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feeders has been the growth of years. They had first to combat the idea 
that beef must have age before it could be healthy meat. First, they 
compromised on three years ; the beef was pronounced good. Then the 
cattle were pronounced at thirty months fully as good and ripe : they also 
found that they got enhanced profits from this manner of feeding. Then 
two-year olds were forced to the same weight that had previously been, 
attained at three years. Last year beef from eleven to twenty months, 
was sold, and from an article prepared by Mr. Henry Evcrshed, for thej 
Royal Agricultural Journat, in which the experience of some eminent 
farmers given, we find interesting matter iu relation to very youDg beef, 
or, a3 they term it, 
Daby Derf. 
Among others, Mr. Stanford, of Charlton Court, is credited with 
haying sold the following heifers and steer3 in 1878, the animals being 
high-grade Short-Horns, at ages and pricos given below : 
T w. -r • >, . . 
One eleven- months-old steer 
Priee. 
$ 74 00 
Return per month 
from birth. 
$6 73 
7 82 
92 40 
6 60 
101 64 
6 77 
One slxteen-inonths-old steer 
102 SO 
6 39 
6 42 
One eitrbteen-and-a-lialf-months-old su-er 
Two eighteen-and-a-half-months old steers, average 
129 36 
122 10 
7 00 
6 60 
The weights of these, some of them were calves, is not given, but the 
price is stated at from 16 to 18 cents (our money) per pound, net weight 
— meaning, we suppose, the four quarters. The best 16 months old 
steer must have weighed something like 1,200 lbs. alive, allowing tho 
quarters to have been 65 per cent, of the whole weight — a not very large 
allowance for such young cattle. In the last Chicago Fat Stock Show, 
the best steer, 28 months old, weighed 1,636 lbs. Tho best steer one 
year old and under two 1,338 lbs., showing that our best feeders not only 
show fully as early maturity as English feeders, but likewise as wonder- 
fully good weights. 
In relation to the English animals mentioned above, Mr. Evershed 
writes : 
“The above figures show that tolerably-bred Short-Horns will return 
7s. a week from birth on this system, at from 13 to 18 months old. 
Those Short-Horns which afforded 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. The host feeders ol 
