Skill Required | for Fattening Breeder Must Now Give More Attention to Feed- ing Light Animals. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Because of the higher price of beef, smaller families, and a smaller pro- portion of the population doing heavy manual labor In recent years as com- pared with former years, the consum- er Is demanding lighterweight cuts of beef. Cattle breeders and feeders have been gradually adjusting their operations to meet this change. Instead of feeding the heavier type of beeves commonly marketed 40 years ago at four or five years of age, they are now feeding calves and year- lings and marketing them when they weigh from 700 to 1,200 pounds. Grow Rather Than Fatten, On account of the tendency of calves to grow rather than to fatten, more skill is required to fatten them within a reasonable time than is nec- essary in the case of older cattle. The several phases of the fattening of calves for market are discussed in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1416-F, “Fat- tening Beef Calves,” just Issued by the United States Department of Ag- riculture, In comparing the fattening of calves and older cattle the bulletin lists sev- eral advantages in favor of calves: The quantity of feed required to make a pound of gain Increases as the animal grows older. Calves make from 33 to 55 per cent gain than mature cattle on the same quan- tity of feed. Fat, open heifers, weighing from 700 to 800 pounds, sell nearly as well as steers. Heavier heifers are discrimli- nated against because they have more internal fat and are not so well cov- ered as steers, and because, being old- er, the possibility of their being preg- nant is greater. Calves can be more carried longer than mature steers when unexpected cir- cumstances arise, such as bad mar- kets, a strike, or an embargo, as they will retain their “bloom” longer after they are ready to market. Why Not to Fatten, On the other hand, it is not always advisable to fatten says the bulletin, for the following reasons: Fattening calves require at- tention and skill on the part of the man feeding than the calves, more them is case with older cattle Calves of slow not fatten rapidly enough sirable carcasses as yearlings. Such calves should generally be carried about two years as stockers before they are fattened. The total feed required a fat three-year-old up of a much larger proportion of roughages than that required to pro- duce a fat Mature cattle can eat coarser roughages and broken ear corn muck cattle. Mature cattle may much they have only to fatten, while grow as well as A copy of the talned by writing Department of ton, D. C. naturing will do- type to make to produce steer may be made (or line yearling. t young w fattened in a shorter time than calves, as calves Difference in Alfalfa vior of it come One cannot bel alfalfa in different field vithot ing to the con great differen ous lots of and to can be found of wide di two lots of same fleld. killing out and dis« holds its stand in fine shape. TI} jue to the in- qualities c¢3 ; in the study is lusion fUSION here e in the ability 1 seed to resist Ki fTerences whe t} 14154 much seed were sown in One ay show s¢ while the other at the difference Is in hered herent can be seed the only 2400000000000 RR AA as a i. -~ - ob i Around the Farm % DPPC GUP ODPL GBP elbow It pays to treat seed grain for smut. - - - If you have idle land on your farm it will pay you in the long run to start trees on it, * ® ® sone Good forestry a part cropping practice god farm practice. . * =» much of is good Leafy, small-stemmmed hay, cut be- fore it and properly cured without being rained on is best. * » - is too mature The larger potatoes especially for cattle should always be sliced to pre vent chokibg on the part of the ani mals. » - » Don't forget that the early thin. ning of vegetables to a stand means increased production and earlier maturity. » - . As feed crop on the farm, barley is commonly considered at least 90 per cent as good as corn, pound for pound, as a feed for live stock, * * * leets serve the same purpose ns do pasture crops like oats, wheat and su- dan for hogs. They nre not nearly s0 valuable us alfalfa or sweet clover, . One of the most valuable items of farm equipment, from the standpoint of the cash return on the Investment, la a good fanning mill or recleaner. Unthrifty Seed Is Never Recommended Money and Labor Is Wasted Without Proper Start. Poor seed will not produce a good crop of potatoes no matter how much labor and money are expended on fertilizer, spraying snd cultivation, ac- cording to K. H. Fernow of the New York State College of Agriculture, Good seed must be relatively from virus diseases, true to variety and In good condition. An inspection of seed shows wheth- affected with black heart or freez- ing injury but only by examination of the growing plants can freedom from virus discases be determined. To ob- tain healthy seed maintain | virus diseases are chase seed from some one control methods, wlio each year to main planting the following year. Such a practice is satisfactory only if the distance from potatoes which have a tion disenses and If conditions are not too favorable for the spread of virus At present there is no way to know virus disenses but the use of certified from such by which comes been inspected state college and have been contain only a small ount diseases. The fields have the of virus a Vegetative Propagation Used for New Varieties New commercial may be obtained propagation of what varieties of fruits by the vegetative is known as bud 8. As applied to fruit trees this refers to branches which for no apparent reason bear fruit different in size, shape or color, or are differ. in from the rest of Such snort Spor term some the tree. bud spe other respect rts are fairly common and when propagated by top grafting remain true to type according to at the Michigan Over 1 of hior- ticultural experimen these i servations sv ryert & experts XK) van being they w station eristics when suflici Wheat Makes Best Feed for Growing Turkeys ne of the bh KOR As grain diet ve Pigs Follow Pigs should be put with steers heing fattened i for they by wil sith nl Ww guther al the steers and cle scattered around the feed hunk. pork ed from this feed, wise w will add materially to the profits from steers. Pigs from 100 to 1530 pounds size, produ other. astedd, weighing host nhie are the Smaller pigs are not so well the gfeora mselves As for n to look after running the they thin |OON ns ennngh arket placed by Feed for Chicks Feeding the chieks begins when they from t! to forty-two hours Call 1 Well-baked corn hrend «¢ rumbled are irty-six old. with conrse Over-feeding is a bowel trouble nnd should he carefully avoided. What they will pick clean in three ar four minutes is enough. Clean water, finely crushed oyster shell, n dry mash of bran and a little beet serap should be kept con- stantly before them. and a very little sparingly san hard i 1 n prolif ¢ source un Plenty of Sunshine The successful hog raiser has eome to appreciate sunshine more and more, Modern house plans provide for admission of plenty of sunlight to the peng. Hogs require an ahundance of fresh, pure air, which should be fur. nished without subjecting them to in. Jurious drafts. 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