. Types and market classes of live stock. feeding period. If it is desired to short-feed them or warm them up during a 60- or 90-day feedingperiod, using a great deal of roughage and proportionatelyless grain, a plainer sort of two- or three-year-old steerswill be more desirable. For the long feed of 120 to 180 days,young steers of good beef breeding are preferred. 5. Breeding.—Steers of good beef breeding are muchpreferred over those which have more or less of a scrub ordairy ancestry. We look for evidences of beef breeding inthe form and color of the animals. The beef-bred animal Types and M
. Types and market classes of live stock. feeding period. If it is desired to short-feed them or warm them up during a 60- or 90-day feedingperiod, using a great deal of roughage and proportionatelyless grain, a plainer sort of two- or three-year-old steerswill be more desirable. For the long feed of 120 to 180 days,young steers of good beef breeding are preferred. 5. Breeding.—Steers of good beef breeding are muchpreferred over those which have more or less of a scrub ordairy ancestry. We look for evidences of beef breeding inthe form and color of the animals. The beef-bred animal Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 95 is more rectangular in build, more compact and blocky, andlower set than the dairy-bred individual. The dairy-bredsteer stands high off the ground, has a long, narrow head,cuts up in the flank, is split up in the twist, cat-hammed, highand short in the rump, and rough in the conformation overthat part. His bone is usually too fine, and his hide is toothin and papery in texture. Red, roan, and black colors. 1 ig. 22. (jood Feeders. are sometimes accepted as proofs of good breeding, but manyscrub animals masquerade under these colors. The Short-horn and Hereford red and the Angus and Galloway blackare frequently found in animals carrying a very small per-centage of the blood of these breeds; the same is true of thepolled head of the Aberdeen-Angus, Galloway, and PolledDurham. Other things being equal, the colors of the beefbreeds are preferred in feeder steers, and most certainly thefawn color, or spotted white and fawn of the Jersey andGuernsey, or the black and white markings of the Holstein 96 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock are evidence of dairy breeding and are to be avoided if pos-sible. As to which of the beef breeds should be given prefer-ence when selecting feeders, that is almost entirely a matterof personal fancy. They are all good and there is no are differences, to be sure, but none great enough toclaim attention her
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