325 Make Cattle
Tour; King Ranch
(Continued from Page One)
trailers, pulled by Jeep, dump
the pellets on grass in a dif
ferent ication each day so there
are no bare spots. Although a
bit wild by nature, the Sants
Gertrudis welcome the Jeeps
and their tiny feed wagons, fol
lowing closely when its feeding
time.
“Bred to live on grass,” Mr.
Wilson told the assembled group
of the Santa Gertrudis, three
eights Brahma, five - eighths
Shorthorn. “We carry our cattle
only to grades to choice, no
prime. The bulk of our market
ing falls in good to. commercial.”
Three-year-old steers, weigh
ing 1400 to 15t)0 lbs, here are a
carryover from another recent
Texas drouth. When feed sup
plies grew shorter in the South
west, many head were shipped
northeast by King Ranch These,
with tWo-year-olds, yearlings
and cows with calves range the
pastures, a little aloof at such a
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Cattle Outlook
T i
THOMAS W. KING, live
stock extension specialist from
the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, takes the microphone
for a report on the cattle sit
uation during the Lancaster
County Cattle Feeders Tour.
(Lancaster Fanning Staff
Photo).
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crowd of- visitors as the Lancas
ter County agriculturalists, but
-willing to come close with the
feed wagon in the lead
Five pounds of pellets
eight parts of corn and barley,
one part protein, fixed with
molasses and extruded in pel
lets an inch thick and two or
three inches in length and
five pounds of grain have been
fed the cattle daily since
July IS, and today the "top 30
per cent is in butcher shape.
“Quite often our cattle will
dress 60 per cent off grass,” Mr
Wilson told the group in one of
several stops.
Truly grass cattle, the Santa
Gertrudis does not suffer from
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Explains Farm
BUit vin .. N> buyer for
Medford Packing Co. explains
operations of Medford Farms
at West Grove, a luncheon
stop in the Lancaster County
Cattle Feeders Tour. (Lan
caster serif Photo).;
Pelleted feed is heading for pasture
from the mill on Ranch’s Buck and
Doe Run Valley Farms near Coatesville.
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bloat as extensively as other
breeds, Mr. W.ilson added. Im
proved pastures bluegrass,
vhite clover, Kentucky 31 fescue,
irome, orchardgrass, ryegrass
nd ladino clovers . are weed
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Pelleted Feed
Here Lancaster County feeders look over
the pellets of molasses, corn and barley.
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
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free, and they make beef. “On
good pastures, with no gram, our
cattle have dressed out 50.7 per
cent,” he continued, “and on
fertilized pasture with pellets
dressing percentage went up to
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Another experiment, which has
proved its worth in Texas, is
underway at King Ranch. A
trench silo filled in 1955 is being
held to test the keeping quality.
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In Texas, silage stored three
year's has been used with suc
cess, although shrinkage is
heavy. The huge trench silo fill
ed last year has settled to ground
level, where it was filled six feet
above ground.
Chester County cushioned the
Texas drough. Cattle by the
liundreds were shipped north, ar
riving too thin for market. To
day the three-year-olds are filled
.out, their coats are glossy.
Utility buildings on King
Ranch’s Buck and Doe Run
Valley Farms are not pretenti
ous. Sheds are painted dull red,
like the steel grain bins that
store the thousands and thou
sands of bushels of grain that
must be purchased each year
for the grass farm. Mot in Use
now is a concrete feed lot al
most'a block long, with bunks
on each side, space between
more than adequate to handle
even a large bus.
Roughage and grass, economi
cal feed, are producmg cattle that
go only into slaughter. Mr. Wil
son explained none are sold to
other breeders from Buck and
Doe Run; it’s a closed breed de
veloped 30 years ago by King
Ranch.
In one sense, this was an in
dustrial tour, the manufacture of
meat, the manufacture of pro
cessed meats, and the manufac
ture of .Fords. At the Ford Mo
tor Co. plant in Chester, the
group saw 1957 models being as-
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Friday, Oct. 19, 1956
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