BABY BEEF.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3139, 16 October 1922, Page 8

BABY BEEF.

()ne of the best eases made out lor “baby beef” is that offered by Air C. Carlyle Smith, a Suffolk farmer. At the Smithfield Show lie bad a Rod Poll exhibit, which took the second prize in its class, weighing 7i}cwt at 1 I months. It was born on September 10. 1920. weaned on October 1, 1920. and during October did not receive more than four pints of milk a day, nor did it taste any milk or calf meal after November I. 1920, but it went straight on to oats, bran, cake and bay. It realised a little over £o per ewt.— about L'lo for the steer at 14 months old. At the same show Mr W. Woodgate had a two-year-old Red Poll steer, the heaviest in its class, weighing 12 ewt. It was 81 months older than Mr Smith's baby steer, and put on l.tewl. in the extra time. As it realised the same price per ewt... it did not make so good a iinaneial return, after deducting L'2l os for extra keep. Mr Smith himself had on exhibition a firstclass Red Poll, three years old. and it made no more money than the other,-. Working it out on the age system, we get this result: “11aby beef at (!2 weeks old, average cost of 12s (id a week from birth: two-year-old steer. 100 weeks old, average 12s a week; three-year-old steer, 102 weeks old. average lls (id a week from birth. Therefore, says Mr Smith, the baby steer brought more and a (jiiieker return than either of the other steers.