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}
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much
seed were sown in
One ay show
s¢ while the other
at the
difference Is in hered
herent
can be
seed
the only
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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
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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. They suffer much in
a close, confining, poorly ventilated
place. Sunlight should sweep nll parts
of the floor each day, to destroy dis
ease brecding organisms
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“A lot!” he snapped. “1 don't mind
these crooks stealing my tire, but
when they open my car and take my
tonls te do it with, that's too much!”
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