EARLY MATURITY IN STOCK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 61, 28 March 1879, Page 3

EARLY MATURITY IN STOCK.

The secret of success in breeding and raising stock is to have suoh breeds as mature early. Here is where the profit conies in. Why keep a steer three or four years if one just as good can be turned off at two J ears? Why keep sheep or lambs to onble tho age that is necessary to turn them off at as good or better prices ? There are early maturing and late maturing breeds, just as there are early maturing fruita and lafo maturing fruits. Bnt early maturing breeds are not enough. They rnuat have good feed and care to make them mature early.- tVe art satisfied that nine - tenths of the Btock in the West and South are kept double the length of time it is necessary to keep them. Double the crops ofestock cdhld bi turned off our farms that are turned off, and double the money made if a wiae* method of breeding, feeding, and caring for stock waa adopted. Just as soon as an animal stops growing the farmer has nofvwtheriufeforit* What? it eats afterwards is a dead loss. Get rid of it, and get younger stock in its place. Keep stock growing and thriving, summer and winter, and then yOu will get paid for what it eats. The moment it comes to a stand still yom lose the food it consumes. Get early maturing breeds, push them while on hand, dispose of them as early aa possible and fill np agauvand so continue:— Rwal World.