Word: heifers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before he left for his vacation, Buzz auctioned 1,000-oddhead of cattle, shipped in from ranges in seven neighboring States, to "feeders" who prime the beef over the winter for choosy eastern markets. "Boy, oh boy, oh boy, lookut that pretty li'l heifer," Buzz urged grizzled buyers in his rough-hewn auction pit, "right offa the juicy meadas. Wottami bid, wottami bid for this pretty li'l heifer? Who'll start it 25, 25, 25. . . ." They bid up to $97 a head; Buzz got $57,000 for the lot; the folks headed home...
...Heifer to Butcher...
While I have previously experienced no trouble in getting twin heifer calves bred, I now have a pair of twin purebred Jersey calves six weeks old, one male, the other female. Numerous experienced breeders advise me the female will not breed. On the other hand, about the same number of breeders say they have never experienced any difficulty in breeding the heifer when one of the twins is a male. The veterinary who attended the mother for a mild attack of milk fever says the contention, that heifer calves who have a male twin will prove to be sterile...
...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...
...will not have proved very much. That might be too bad, because his veterinarian would probably say "I told you so" instead of looking up the literature. Perhaps Lloyd's who are said to insure anything, might be asked to take a flier on insuring the heifer...