WASTE IN BEEF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14449, 8 November 1917, Page 3

WASTE IN BEEF.

CA , IPHEEE-Y^AR-OLD STEER 1 UN ;. .. EXPENSIVE {FORM Of 'aPOC^.V

Professor T. B. Wood, the well-known expert of. .the British . B.pa.rd. ,. of Agricul-ture,-Jin -la«; .pamphlet*- jusb "published on "The National Food 'Siipi^y iii Peace and War," indicts the threeryear-steer as a wasteful product. Pigs tee usually -sl&nghtered before they are a year old; with sheep the^jago of slaughtering is probably a little more than this, but Apt -very much. Steers E are •.'coirimdnly between ICi the ages of 30 months and three yearsJft A three-year-old steer by the timeUt is ready for the butcher will have consumed eight tons of dry fodder, which vffdrk* Mt at 'ah SVerage 'of. 171bs thvtiugh its ; whole life; .•"* Bather ttore than <half of this— rsay,. an average of lOlbs per head per day,, or uve 'ions m the aggregate^will 'have been iifsed up m maintaining the. vital functions of the animal. -It follo\Vk 'from this the longer ;an: animal is kept beforeQt is finaUy. prepared for the butchor, o?Hlie more fodder it .wastes on maintenankie. ' Prbfessdr Wood piitsit that if a iteer can ;be ;tb>*the ati*' 18 months instead of three years, at ir^iist three tons Of maintenance fodder \*"6ji'l ■be^ saved:' ■••'' • '- : ■■■'■■ -■ ■■- - :\,