American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . a year for identification, when the calves are castrated and branded, whilethose fit for beef are selected and driven to market. They are impatient of restraint, andhaving led a wild, roving life, never become really domesticated. When from five to seven 914 THE FARMER. years of age, they average about a thousand pounds live weight, but when fed on com forsome months they will reach an average of 1,200 pounds, with perhaps from 600 to 700pounds of marketable beef, as
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . a year for identification, when the calves are castrated and branded, whilethose fit for beef are selected and driven to market. They are impatient of restraint, andhaving led a wild, roving life, never become really domesticated. When from five to seven 914 THE FARMER. years of age, they average about a thousand pounds live weight, but when fed on com forsome months they will reach an average of 1,200 pounds, with perhaps from 600 to 700pounds of marketable beef, as weighed from the butchers block. These cattle, of which thecut is a good illustration, are of almost every color ever represented in a bovine animal; theyare taU, lank, and bony, with coarse heads and exceedingly long horns, flat sided, swayed inthe back, with high flanks, narrow hips and quarters, and long and coarse legs. As beefanimals, they have a large amount of ofial in proportion to their flesh. The cows give onlysufficient milk for the nourishment of their oSspring, and are neaily as large as the Gbocp of Tezab Cattub These cattle have aided much in supplying the beef markets of the country, but for a few yearspast the typical Texan steer has become less common in the Western stock yards, having beenimproved to a considerable extent by the importations of pure-bred bulls of the best beefhreeds, such as the Short-horns and Herefords. The change brought about by this meansis more and more apparent in the improved form, weight, fattening quaUties, and earlymaturity of these half-wild animals that are now furnished for the beef markets. By comparing the cut of Texan cattle, inserted above, with those of the fine pure-bred animals of the present time, we have a good illustration of what has Ijeen accomplishedby the intelligent breeder, as well as a striking contrast between a poor and improfitableanimal and a valuable one, the breeding and keeping of which is a source
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