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country-bred cattle in Sussex-and Surrey inform me that they consider a 
fair average weight for animals, well fed from birth, 100 Smithticld stone 
at one hundred weeks, giving a return of one stone (8 lbs. dressed 
weight) per week, or Gs. ($1.32) per week.” 
Our authority mentions a steer killed that dressed 132 stone at one 
hundred weeks, equivalent to 1,760 lbs. live weight. Some sixteen 
months steers dressed, in the quarters, 600 lbs., having 120 lbs. of rough 
fat, and a very small proportion of offal. He states that the best feeders 
are able to reach an average of $1.43 per week at sixteen to twenty 
mouths, from a Short-Horn cross on common cows. 
Feeding— Cost in England. 
The English feeder is content with the manure resulting from this 
manner of feeding stock, if indeed he can get this for his trouble. As 
to the cost of making what is termed a “baby bullock” of seventy-one 
weeks, the following is given, reduced to our standard of dollars and 
cents : 
Purchase of calf. $ 8 83 
Four weeks’ new milk, equal is uauy, at 2ii per quart o IQ 
Eight weeks’ skimmed milk, 6 quarts daily, at l-2d per quart, ajid 2 lbs. of meal at 
l-4d per lb : G G8 ■. 
Seventeen weeks in June. July, August and September, on a daily diet of 2 lbs. of 
linseed cake, 2 lbs. bean meal, mangel, hay. grass, clover, etc 17 '57 
Twenty-six weeks to end of March— 5 lbs. of cake and meal daily, 3 4 bushel of 
roots, hay and straw for fodder 30 27 
Sixteen weeks to harvest — 8 lbs. ot cake and meal dally, mangel, grass, clover — total, 
SI 59 per week 25 44 
Attendance, 71 weeks at 11 cents 7 si 
Insurance, interest, and rent of shed 5 64 
Total ’ $107 35 
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Our authority estimates the value of the manure at 20 per cent, of . 
the cost of the food, $85.12, or value of manure $17.02. His account 
stands thus: x ,,, 
DR. 
A bullock 71 weeks old $io'7'35 
Profit 17 G9. - 
Total $125 04 
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CR. 
A bullock sold at 71 weeks old .......... $108 02. 
Value of manure 17 02 
Total $125 04 
Let any feeder take a calf at five dollars at birth, figure the cost of 
everything fed in raising, new milk, skim milk, oil-cake, and ground food 
if raised by hand, or the interest on the cow if allowed to run, care, 
