Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — Triplet Steers. [ARTICLE]

Triplet Steers.

Josiah S. Keveraon, of Barnet. Vt., writes as follows of his triplet steers, Shem, Ham and Japheth: “The mother of the steers is a 9-year-uld high grade Shorthorn <*ovv which had always dropped single calves until May 8, 1889. when she gave birth to these triplets. Their sire was a t very fine full blooded Shorthorn bull, which, so far as I have heard, had always begot single calves until this case. The steers were castrated when a few weeks old. They were born May 3. I bought them on Aug. 12. They were allowed to suckle the dam until I took them, on August 14. I then tried to teach them to drink hew milk as taken from the cow. but they would not touch h. I fed them on hay, ground oats and wheat bran, and after a few days began to give them oars of corn lef‘. from the table in the boiling season. They —jl- - the green ears very much, “As the corn matured I put them on the hard corn, giving them two or three ears each now and then. Thoy are now eating two or three quarts of bran apiece each day, and also, first u handful of oats, then two or three earc of corn and afterward a few roots — beets or carrots. They have gained very finely. “They are colored exactly alike and marked nearly alike, except that Shem has a star on his forehead. No person can tell which is the tallest. A farmer called to see them, and I asked him to Belect the largest one; he looked them over and carefully made his selection. I then “mixed them up” and asked him to tell me the smallest. • He made his selection, and, to his surprise, he had picked the same stee-\”