Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — BABY BEEF. [ARTICLE]

BABY BEEF.

By baby beef is meant beef from young stock that has been forced to the greatest possible weight within a very short time. This is preferred by many, and as a consequence, brings the highest price and has been found very profitable by those who went to the trouble necessary to produce it. The calf that is destined to be made into baby beef should be allowed to suckle its mother, as it is impossible by any system of feeding to improve upon the natural food. Besides this, it should be taught to eat at the earliest moment, and never allowed to want for food or drink from the day of its birth till it is sent to the shambles. Its food should be of the best, and such as will make a growth of muscular tissue and fat both, for good beef of any kind must be plentifully supplied with fat. A good ration can be made of wheat, oats and corn ground together in equal proportions and fed as a thick slop. This is very nutritious and palatable, and a healthy animal will consume it greedily. In addition to this good pasturage should be furnished, and as winter comes on the best of hay or cut fodder should be provided. If the details of feeding are carefully attended to, a welt bred calf will develop into a good-sized animal at a year old, and in the case of fall calves will, by the Christinas of their second year, be ready to dispose of at the top prices as Christmas beef, which is usually considered in advance of the price in the open market.—A. R. Sayers, in American Farmer and Farm News. FARM NOTES. During September England and Scotland imported 567.000 bushelsol apples, equal to 226,800 barrels, reckoning 21 bushels to the barrel. The total imports during the first nine months ifito the United Kingdom were 1,836,000 bushels, or 734,400 pounds, against 1,772,000 bush.els in ’93, and 2,164,000 bushels in ’92. Of course the greater part of this fruit went originally from the orchards of the United States and Canada. -* October was cooler than usual in the North Pacific coast and in parts of the East Gulf States, and wanner in the Rocky Mountain region and northern districts from the Missouri Valley eastward, with some high temperatures in California. Montana and Colorado. Unusually low tem peratures occurred in the Mississippi Valley, with killing frosts a? far south as St. Louis. The rainfall was heavier than usual in the Southern and Middle States, as wdll as in the extreme Northwest. In thi Southwest practically no rain was received. On the whole the weathei wai favorable for farm work.