HIGH-CLASS BEEF

Hawera Star, Volume L, 21 February 1931, Page 11

HIGH-CLASS BEEF

RETENTION OF CALF FLESH

To produce the highest-tclass beef animal, he must, in the first place, be well bred; 'and, secondly, every care must be exercised that what is termed the calf flesh is never lost at any peirod of his life. If we trace the life-history of the large proportion of the fat cattle exhibited and sold in our fairs and markets, says an English paper, we will find that little attention lias been given to the retention of calf flesh. Granted that much improvement could, and should, be made in the matter of attraction to breeding from good pedigree sires, there cannot he a doubt but that the ordinary stock, if properly attended to from their birth, can be fed to become a higher class of beef animals than what the large majority are at present. In many districts, after being insufficiently reared as calves, the young animals are badly fed and left out exposed to wet and cold, to commence their second year robbed of the natural Hesli they ought never tu have been deprived of and which no amount of good feeding can ever replace.