Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-27
wElI-sRED CATTLE
I'm These Days it Does Not Fay to
Raise Any Other Kind.

III there he any one proposition in re
iation TO which well-informed opinion
is ut one, IL il that WE'LL bred stock will
afford a profit when no oSher Kind will.
and that when prices are SO good tina.
the growing of almost any kind is re-
mureratiVe. well-bred animals are so
much more profitable as to make il
very unwiSe TO grow any other kind.
This fact is well recognized in the swine
industry, SAYS Iowa Homestead. and
very few animals go 10 market now
from the swine belt that do not have "A
GOOD proportion of good blood which
gives them form and early maturing
quality. In the cattle business. how
ever. the principle. although almost
unanimously admitted. is not So unan-
imously observed. \ great many cat
tie are produced from matings that
never should have been made, and es.
pecially is il true that sires are used
that should have been shipped to the
fat steer market. This is very unwisc.
IL is n waste OF feed. OF care. of the
use of land. and of the labor that must
be expended in the growing OF cattle
of any kind With wcll-bred cattle.
calves intended for beef can be lib
orally fed from birth. whether they
he steers or hcifer calves. and they
should never know the stunting that is
| occasioned 10y roughing il through on
insufficient feed and with insufficient
care. Such cattle attain marketable
age early, and when they reach IL will
have both the size and finish to insure
the best prices that are going. II. how
ever, they are stunted at any time. no
future care can fully regain for them
what they have lost. In this respect.
however, they are no different from
scrubs. For stuntcd scrub cannot
| regain its best estate either. With
s'cers of little or no breeding. n good
! deal longer maintenance is required. for
they will not fatten until they have ma
tured, and they do not mature until
they have attained considerable age.
| There was good reason in the old DAYS
why steers were kept until four or five,
years OF age; they did not mature until
then; and until they did mature no
smoothness or finish could he given.
and AT an earlier age they would go for
ward coarse, and raw-boned. and only
command the inferior prices which
stun of that kind brought. The market
now demands Younger cattle, but the
younger cattle that il wants are of the
kind that natures when young. The de.
mand does not mean scrubs crowd
ed and shipped at an early age. With
cutie in which the breeding has re-
ceived attention, and which have been
/ liberally fed from calfhood. the weight
az l,4O0 or 800 can Ice made al an early
age, and the style and finish will sell
the animal for good price. as com
pared with the top of the market. but
scrub cattle can be neither fattcncd
nor finished early. and hence they can
not be turned quickly. and must be
maintained il they are To- receive any
/ fattening and finish worth speaking of
/ for nearly twice as long as wcll-bred
animals. These are the facts in rela-
| ton 10 the matter, and they carry their
own lesson. namely, that no grower of
cattle can afford TO do otherwise than
/ use a good sire with the best dams he
can secure, and then push the young
sters by liberal feeding. that they shall
! never know days relapse.