. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . e timidity of the animal. Afeeder of long experience learns to associate abright, healthy coat of luxuriant hair with gainingcapacity. He learns to avoid the skin having theappearance of being drawn tightly over the are qualities which may be observed by theeye. Gaining Capacity a Question of Type RatherThan Breed.—The ability to make rapid and eco-nomical gains is, therefore, a question of typerather than of breed. Several experiment sta-tions have at various times conducted so-calledbreed tests, in which one or two specimens oiea
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . e timidity of the animal. Afeeder of long experience learns to associate abright, healthy coat of luxuriant hair with gainingcapacity. He learns to avoid the skin having theappearance of being drawn tightly over the are qualities which may be observed by theeye. Gaining Capacity a Question of Type RatherThan Breed.—The ability to make rapid and eco-nomical gains is, therefore, a question of typerather than of breed. Several experiment sta-tions have at various times conducted so-calledbreed tests, in which one or two specimens oieach breed, both dairy and beef, have been fed incomparison with steers of unknown breeding, com-monly called scrubs. These tests have not proved thatone breed is superior to another, nor that steers of thebeef breeds are superior as gainers to all dairy bredsteers and natives. Where a representative of a cer-tain breed made the largest gain in one test, a repre-sentative of a different breed came out ahead in another 124 PROFITABLE STOCK GOOD TYIE—GRADE , one year and six months :weight. ).) pounds; gain per day. INFERIOR TYPE—GRADE , one year and ten months ;weight, 000 pounds; gain, onepound per day. BEEF TYPE. 125 test. These tests have beeii unsatisfactory from afeeding point of view, because not enough individualsof any one breed were used. They have been of value,in that it has been abundantly shown that rapidity ofgains is a question of type and condition, not of often find native steers with strong, vigorous con-stitutions and they are good gainers, at least for alimited period. Steers from a dairy breed like the Hol-stein-Friesian usually have strong assimilative powers,and there is no reason why they should not make largedaily gains. We find an occasional Jersey of goodfeeding capacity. Most individuals of this breed, how-ever, are of more delicate constitution and do not re-spond so well in the feed-lot.
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