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Home Coiarse
In Live Stock
Farming
XVI. Feeding Beef Cattle.
By C. V. GREGORY,
Author of "Home Course In Modern
Agriculture." "Malttntf Money on
the form," Etc.
Copyright, 1009. by American Pres
Association.
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N. W. Cor. Box Butte Ave.
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All kinds Fresh and Cured Meats,
Fish, Poultry, and everything else
"sold in a first-class meat market
lltiltn tiro two general ineth
oils of making boot'. Tlio llrst
consists lu crowding the
Calvin from birth until they
are nbotit eighteen months of ago.
when they aio marketed ns baby boot.
The other method is to buy up young
stuff, feed It for a few months atid
sell It for what II will bring. The bulk
of these feeders is bought In the fall
as two-year-olds and fed through the
winter. Some are bought us yearlings
and kept a year on rough .feed and
pasture before they are put luto the
feed lot.
Baby Beef.
With the lessening size of the ranges
and consequent smaller supply of west
ern feeders, It is becoming more neces
sary for the farmer to raise his own
cuttle. Where this Is done it will
usually be most protltablo to sell them
as baby beef, thus avoiding the es
pouse of keeping them until three
o.us old. Good dual purpose cows
are usually used to produeo baby beef
animals, since It Is too often a losing
proposition to keep a cow a year for
the calf alone. Where the calves are
being raised for breeding purposes and
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FIO. XXX. GOOD iiEHErono STEEIU
soil for n substantial advance over
market prices they may bo nl lowed to
run with their mothers nnd live on
new uilllc. This Is too cxpenslro n
feed for beef culves. however. As soon
ns the enlf Is a week old it should be
gradually changed from whole to skim
mill;, according to the plan given in
article 8. As soon ns possible the
calves should bo taught to cat shelled
corn, wltu perhaps 11 row oats niixeu
with it. With clover or alfalfa for
roughnge, shelled corn nloue does very
well. The calves should be given all
the rough feed they will eat. as by
developing n large capacity when
young greater gulus can be obtained
later.
Kroin the standpoint of mill: produc
tion it Is best to liave the calves Corne
ll) the fall, but If cheap gnlns on the
calves Is the main point sought nprlng
calving Is preferable. In this way the
calves will have to be kept through but
one winter, and two summers of cheap
gains on grass can be obtained, if the
calves come In the spring they should
be turned 011 grass as soon as possible.
A shndy pasture, with an occasional
spraying for Hies when they are bad.
will add to the gains. Some grain
should be fed nil summer, the amount
being controlled largely by the price.
Heavy grain feeding increases the rate
of gain, but adds to the cost. (Jinln
feeding should continue throughout
the winter, with the addition of plenty
of clover or nlfnlfa hay and a little
silage or roots, if such feed can be
had.
One of the best wnys to feed to corn
nt this time is to simp it and run It
through a sllcer. There Is a freshness
nbout snapped com that makes the
cattle relish It 11 great deal more than
they do corn that has been husked.
The feeding value of the busks
amounts to considerable too. A little
oil or cottonseed meal added to the ra
tion will cheapen the cost of galu If
corn Is high In price. The most rapid
gains are made where alfalfa or clover
forms the only roughage, fed nt the
rate of about three pounds of hay to
one of corn. Adding 11 little cheaper
roughage 1 educes the cost of gain,
however. Part of the clover may be
replaced to advantage by silage.
The feed given should be liberal, as
calves tend to grow rather Ihun to fat
ten. This tendency Is specially evi
dent In culves of "scrub" ancestry.
The feeder should endeavor to make
t'len glow and fatten at the same
time, never losing the "calf fat." Dur
ing the early part of the second sum
mer, while the grass Is nt its best, the
grain feeding may slacken somewhat,
but should be increased again after a
month or so until the cnlves ure get
ting nil they will clean up. The prop
er time to market will depend largely
upon the price nnd the finish of the
cnttle. A little extra finish adds con
siderably to the price.
In experiments that have been car
ried on to determine the relative cost
of gains It has been found that gains
can be put on yearlings l'toni 2T to 30
per cent cheaper than on two-ycur-olds.
Objection Is sometimes made to
baby beef raising on the ground that
the cheap roughnge, such as cornstalks
and straw, cannot be disposed of lu
this way. This Is true, but the cows
will use n largo part of this feed, nnd
the rest can be turned Into bedding
and used to swell the size of the ma
in fei-dlng older cattle, however. They
gain faster and more uniformly xnd
put on a better finish.
Feeding Older Cnttla.
Where two-yenr-oldrt nrt to bo fed
they must ukiuiIIj be puivlmwd. Oc
cusloimll.i 11 tew can be plchrd up in
the neighborhood, but If nu. iiumU-r
are wauled they will have lo bu ImhuIii
on the general umtUet. lu older .
uniUe a profit in leedlug ther mti '
be a mat! lu between the cost of feed
ers and the sollln;' pike of tut ilhluaiU
It the fat nicer im Is lor $1 a httndtid
weight more Umu he wax bought tw
oath bundled pounds of lit original
weight has been lucieaed lu alile Sl.
It Is lu ibis way tint most of the pu:li
In feeding Is obtained.
llujlng feeding cattle tight ie one
of the most impiiitaut fiictuts to sin
cess In the cattle business, Lnrnv tut
tie can 1m safely puuhatd on n t.at
rower margin than lighter one, slme
there Is more weight lo be Inci eased
In alue. 1'or Instnn.-e. u margin uf 1
on a TOO pound steer would mean nn
hit reuse In nlue of ?7. On n 1,200
pound steer the margin would heed to
be only GO cents lo produce the same
amount. Another general principle Is
that the lower the pi Ice nt which the
feedets ure bought the greater must be
Liu margin. Of course the tnnigln In
any case can be only estimated, since
the selling pvlce cannot be foretold lo
a certainty hi advance.
In selecting feeder steers there are A
number of points to bu kept in mind.
One of the most Important of these is
uniformity. A bunch of steers that
uio uniform as to size and quality will
feed better together and bring a better
price when fattened. The feeders
should come as near the beef type as
possible short face nnd ncclc, deep
body, well sprung ribs, broad back,
straight top and under line, long rump,
fairly short legs. The steer with n
sway back or fiat ribs should be avoid
ed. A sway back will never become
ihlckty covered with tlesh, and a nar
row one cannot entry as much meat as
11 wide one. Since (bis Is where the
highest priced meal is found, this
point will bo nn lmpottunt one. In
uddltlon to this, the steers should have
good constitution and large digestive
capacity without being paunchy. Too
large a paunch lessens the ppicentagc
of dressed beef that the nulinnl will
kill out. while a steer that is "tucked
up" In the Hank will never make good
gains. If any of the cattle have bonis
they should be dehorned nt onie after
getting them home.
Tho usual method of getting cattle
on feed Is to hurry the process as much
as possible, getting them on full feed
withlu fifteen to thirty dnys fioni the
time they were first put Into the feed
lot Where tho cnttle ate to be on
feed but n short time, sny ninety days,
this Is Undoubtedly the best method.
It Is not economical, however. Larger
amounts of grain will be used with
less roughage. The gains grow smaller
toward the end of the feeding period,
as the cattle begin to tire-of the heavy
rations. Where this plan is followed
the safest plan Is to chaff the hay
with a feed cutter and mis the grain
with It. Some ollmeal should ba used
to balance the corn.
A more profitable plan usually Is to
start lu more slowly. Inking ns long ns
sixty dnys to get the cattle on full
feed. The main feed during this pre
liminary period and much of the later
period as well may be snapped corn
Considerable slluge may be fed to ad
vantage during the fir.U part of the
feeding period. If fed silage during
the finishing period they will not
smooth up as well, ship us well or sell
ns well.
This plan of using a lighter grain
ration and n longer feeding period
produces cheaper gains down to n
eoitniu point. Uy the end of slxtj
dajs the emtio should be on full feed
and bhould recede nearly nil they will
clean up from that time on. They
are In better shape to stand crowdlug
than if they had been pushed from
the start and will co'ntlnue to make
satisfactory gains up to the end of
the feeding period. Some oil or cot
tonseed meal should be given during
the hist thirty days, ns It not only
cheapens the cost of galn3, but also
adds to the finish. Where then are
hogs following cattle, grinding feed
will seldom pay. with the posslhlo ex
ception of the last two or three weeks.
Kxpetlments In feeding for a long
period compared as to profits with
feeding for n short period have shown
that If roughage be relatively more
plentiful and cheaper than meal then
the "long feed" Is the more prolltnblo
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but where meal Is plentiful nud rough
ago scarce then tho "short feed" Is
likely to be more profitable.
Experiments In feeding lots of an In
ferior class of steer lu comparison with
lots of a medium class of steer and lots
of a superior class of steer go to show
Unit the superior class give greater re
turns for feed fed, make greater gains
in a given time and sell for a higher
price tlinn do tho Inferior class.
Feeding steers twice a day rather
than more frequently bas been found
advisable. I'eedlug a succulent ration
has been found to be cheaper nnd more
wholesome than nn all dry feed ration.
Mixing roughage and meal seems to
gle better results than feeding them
tinre ullo. There ure some advantages separately.
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