Excerpt from Age as Affecting the Cost of Production and the Quality of Beef: Thesis During the last few years a tendency has developed among the more progressive feeders to produce baby beef. Experience has shown them.that pound for pound it is cheaper to produce good beef by keeping the animals growing rapidly from calfhood until they are from 18 to 20 months old and weigh 1100 to 1200 pounds, than by letting them grow until they are matured and then fattening them.at weights ranging from 1550 to 1700 pounds. It is well known that this baby beef has not so good a flavor as the older beef and the question arises as to Whether the improvement in quality in the older beef will pay for the increase in cost. In order to gain some information on this question a feeding experiment and slaughter test was conducted as outlined in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
