CATTLE 
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By “baby beef” we mean calves, grown rapidly and fat¬ 
tened before they are one year of age. A well-bred calf 
will weigh seven or eight hundred pounds when he is 
ten months old, if he is given all that he can eat from 
the time he is old enough to take other food than his 
mother’s milk. Such beef is very tender and commands 
a high price. As soon as the calf begins to take all the 
milk from his mother, a small box should be fixed so that 
Fig. 52. —A champion Aberdeen Angus cow. Pride Protest 6th. 
he may begin to nibble at some mixed feed. This may 
consist of bran or ground oats and corn with a little 
cottonseed meal. With the mother’s milk, a good sup¬ 
ply of grass or hay, and a quantity of ground feed, the 
calf will develop into a prime “baby beef” within a few 
months. 
A large amount of the American beef supply comes 
from the range cattle which are fattened in grain-grow¬ 
ing sections. Grass-fed calves are shipped to our cen- 
