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Six ox the 30 different buyers were repeat customers.
Newbill Miller purchased what I considered the top of the “fancy” steer chives which he will feed as a 4-H Baby Beef project.
While this sale brings to a close the major portion of the best cattle industry of«the county for the year> it also marks the beginning of another year's operation and thus I feel a few , seasonal suggestions are in order concerning our commercial beef cow herds.
Market that non-producing cow noy; also any cow which you may have that produced a weak, slow growing, poor quality calf.
If you have any late calves, put them in the market and give the mother an opportunity to build up before winter sets in.
Wean those heifer calves you are keeping for her replacements. One cattleman says he has less trouble if-the cows and. calves are placed in adjacent fields so„ they can smell each other through the. fence.
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_spring, put the old, bull dn the market, and the sale price in his successor now so he will be farm conditioned and “at home" before spring.
Begin feeding replacement heif-. era earlier than you normally do the mature animals. Keep an eagle-eye on the cows and don’t let them start losing weight before you start feeding. Chances are a calf born of a thin mother will never catch up with one produced by a thrifty cow.
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