EARLY MATURITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 22 June 1917, Page 9

EARLY MATURITY.

A POWERFUL LESSOX FROM AMERICA. Concerning the livestock and meat conditions for the past year, and the prcspects for the ensuing year, President Thomas E. Wilson, of Wilson and Cornpan v. sars in the Chicago "Live Stock World": — "The live-stock industry, T think speaking of the history as a whole, closed the year 1910 with the most satisfactory results ever shown, and in my opinion .with a better feeling existing among the different branches of the indutry than has prevailed at any time in tho past. Thpt closer co-operation between the live-stock raiser, the feeder and the packer is going to develop a condition much more satisfactory for the producer and feeder and equally satisfactory to the consumer; this will bring about the production of better quality and greater qualities of livestock, and will result, in giving to the consumer, at no greater cost, and possibly at a lower coat, improved quality, at the saime time bringing greater returns to the producer and feeder through the more intelligent breeding and feeding of meat animals. '• The grand champion carload of cattle at the recent International Live Stock Exposition held in Chicago, purchased Iby Wilson and Company for 28 cents a ! pound, is an outstanding example of what is possible along these lines. These cattle were yearlings and weighed 1,146 pounds, winning over steers of all ages, and while the price paid for them does not necessarily represent the actual value, it is a practical demonstration jof what can be done by intelligent | breeding and feeding, and brings forcibly to the attention of the breeders and feeders the possibility of producing in a little over a year an animal of superior quality with sufficient weight to justify its .slaughter for beef, while a few years ago it was thought necessary to take three or four years to produce these results.''