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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 10

I In a review of the December Smithfield show, the Mark Lane Express remarks that ; there is no point in which breeders and ' feeders of live stock have made moro pro- | gross than in early maturity, or} in other j .1 words, getting useful weights at a tender age. Some years ago 15cwt would have be)ii considered a \ery good weight for a four-year-old bullock, but now a threo-year-old will scale that quite easily. Last | I year the winner of tho butcher's prize at | j Birmingham— the weighed | : nearly 30cwt,- and this year the heavy-1 woight winner was about 22c\vt, Tl'io [ j average butcher does not require a carcase ; over lOOst in weight, and a great many I prefer one lOst less, therefore feeders are '■ Lunwiso to attempt to feed ton weight bul- ' I locks. "Those," it is stated, "who i can remember the fat ribs of beef sent into their customers by butchers 30 years j ago would not care to sit down to a similar joint now, or if they would their sons I and daughters would not. Thero is no I doubt whatever that fat stock shows have I done much towards bringing about early j maturity, ■« tho publication of ages and weights teaches lessons as to the possibilities of what may bo accomplished in daily gains by a well-fed bullock or , heifer.'- I