Sharp County record., 1885-07-02
BEEF FOR FOOD.
The Feeding That Is Necessary In "
To Make the Best Bee''

To Make the Best Beef.
# is not the heaviest nor the ia
animal that should bring the ms
nrice for the butchers block, but tina
imal giving the largest per cent OF
meat to live weight. Such an an
4 will always contain fat enough Will
meat fiber to make it palatable,
and nourishing, The fat parts OF
cattle or mutton sheep are little
as human food. Hence the crucial
must ever be the greatest proper
of lean meat muscle) to the carcas
II is well known that steers qul
fed to fatness on sweet, flush pastul
give the most succulent and hnely-l
ored food. Why? The relative pro
tion of fat and lean is normal.
COWS sell for less money per pc
than steers. Why again? The pro-
ton of fat to lean is greater, as
principal cause, and, as a second
reason, although better favored {
that of the bull, the meat of the COW
not so delicate as that of the ST.
Fashion, however, years ago deci
that a carcass must be considered
ferior if it did not show immense de-
opment of fat, even to great pat
masses on the outside. 1t was eSl
lished in the good old days. of tai
candles, when fat was one Of the n.
important parts of the animal. So |
as fashion demands this feeders NJ
cater to it. Indian corn will ea
make fat. Some food, richer in pl
phate and nitrogen, however, is
,quired with corn, to keep the propori
Of fat and lean equal. If the true +
tion as between fat and lean were
derstood by the buyer this could be h
duced probably cheaper to the consul
Than the monsters of fat so much |
mired at our fat-Stock shows. Yeti
long as the feeder and buyer alike I'd
pride in these fat-overloaded aninl
here will be no change. The fa
However, remains constant: the 4
two hundred pounds of fat added I'd
steer, ripe in flesh, add only to the cl
Of the succulent lean meat produced
One of the results of this fashion HI
been the forcing of breeding cattle un
hey now, through heredity, early 4
7elop fat abnOrmally. The yearlina
mountain of blubbery fat is gazed |
With wonder, Grade Devons and we
,red native steers, however, contin,
0 NIL the eye of the butcher and ii
rue gaStromoniSt. 1t is so in Englan(
he black cattle, the Devon. and tn
Taded Hereford bring the best price
: Smlthfield market. The reaction ha
lready set in in the United States
1e effect that a yearling or a two-veal
"a, however fat, does not constitute
eel animal, and in the case of tha
'onderfuI animal of bovine deyelor
lent, the Short Horn, serviceable ami
'als, even what would be called b
'me ~ breeders plainly bred" d"-whatti
'lier hoping to get something oven |
andred dollars for would call "usefd I
-these are coming to have more a
ore advocates year by year. They "a
't wonders of precocious fatness, 1t
.ey are nevertheless just the animaL
natever the breed, that, bought at ole
lndred to one hundred and fifty dd.
g for bull, will pay one hundred
= cent. on the investment to breed
ades on the common stock of tho
eedlng farmer If they lack some.
1at OF early maturity they give stou,
afty feeding calves that will make
u mck-heshed steers and COWS of more
n average goodness at the pail.
lcre would seem to be no better time
ene intending purchaser than now
enaoie the bull to become fully
1ohted to the herd before the bred.
season commences. Chicago 7rib-