The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-10

animal, the more food it requires to make
pound of growth. This law is as immut
able as those that hold the spheres in
their courses. 1t has been said to me that
il is cheaper to make pound of growth on
an eighteen-months-old pig than in q
younger one. That man that keeps q pip
beyond eight months makes pork at a
greater cost than necessary, snd if kept un.
Ill eleven months, at say 20 per cent, OF
more, beyond what is necessary. OF this
there is no question.
Feeding is a science. Not as a teacher,
but as a practica. farmer, owe my con-
viction that DO practical discussion could
he made without using the discoveries and
terms brought out by the experiment sta
tiOns OF Europe and some efforts in Amer
lea. The subject is too full TO now enter
into. / have for seven successive years
devoted special feeding trials to this mat
ter, asking the honest steer tor his answer,
and not theorists. The steer will not lie
| wish to say one thing in this connection
of food combinations The state produces
5000 900 tons OF corn fodder and between
900, O0O and 2,0OO,OO0 tons of wheat straw.
| will, under bonds, at present prices of
beef, agree TO realize "a to So per ton for
these folders when rightly fed. As Colonel
Sellers expressed it regarding his eye
water, "there is millions in it." for at least
two-thirds OF this fodder is wasted. II can
be utilized. Ii is not enough for us to say
that our farming pays or that we are doing
bstier than our neighbors. Ii is our privi-
lege and duty to press our business to the
extent of our ability and for ali that the
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fodder, 1 ask, can you not utilize. more of
these foods?
At the conclusion of the professors re-
marks, he received the plaudits of those as
sembied, and the chairman suggested that
vote OF thanks be rendered him, as he had
delivered the most interesting and instruc-
tive address it had been his good fortune to
listen To-.
DIR. Cundiff moved that the assOci alton
thank the professor once for his presence
and three times over for ms able address,
and also to extend to- him cordial invita-
ton TO attend all furture meetings OF the
Seconded and carried
Mr.. H. b. Scott resumed his theme of
the previous day-the importance of keep
ing the short-hOrns in the fore and the best
said breeders were too eager to make money
quick and were in the habit of selling off
breeders which were calculated to bring the
short horn into bad repute He agreed
with DIR. Cundiff in his advocacy of the
free use of the knife. Besides this every
breeder should keep fine bullock on hand
so as to show the merits and capabilities of
the breed. He said that as far AS he was
indi, idually concerned he had been putting
the knife even to some of his thorough
breds
Judge Gentry fully concurred The re-
marks made by Mr.. Scott, and said that
one cause for no more fat bullocks being
kept on hand by breeders was because our
fairs, which formerly offered as high as
one and two hundted dollars as
premiums for such stock, had
lost sight of cattle in fast horses. which alb
'Orbed all the premiums. Our county fairs
had all run into fast horses, and the St.
Louis fair had fallen into the same error.
Chicago was showing a disposition to cor
-.ct the evil, and he was proud to state that |
Kansas City had also taken the cue and
proposed to hold a show exclu- |
'ively for fat cattle. The breeders |
IF the south and west look to Missouri for |
breeding stock, and pick up greedily ey-
'rything offered The result was that |
mere scrubs we're being sold as thorough
bred short horns, to the detriment of breed
rs. He, too, was in favor of applying the
.nife more freely. Applause.
Mr.. Etue, of the Kansas City Indicator,
Explained the objects of the Kansas City
at cattle show, to be held in November
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sould probably be on exhibition.
Mr.. A. ]. Pows II. OF Jackson county, and
Dr.. Cundiff, of Cas-, also made remarks
oncerning preparations being made fer
he coming show.
Mr.. Ad Walker, of Cooper, fully endors-
d all that had been said by Mr.. Scott,
nd Judge Gentry regarding the free use of
he knife in purifying the blood of the
hort horn, but owing to the constantly in
reasinx demand for breeders, deemed
he use of the knife just now as imprac-
icable. Ali anyone raised stock for was
Dr. the money in it snd it paid better to
ell than TO cut. The fact that even their
,rubs are in demand at big prices, was
violence of the superiority OF the short
orn, which improved every breed it was
rought in contact with.
Mr.. Scott thought Mr.. Walker talked
lore like speculator than q breeder.
he Ohject OF this meeting, as he under
God it. was to improve the short horn. and
lr. Walkers policy was inimical TO the
esired emf
DIR. Cundiff moved that a committee of
hree be appointed by the chair to collect
acts AM : ,rk up an interest in the forth
Oming slow at Kansas City. Seconded
nd carried.
The chair appointed DR.. Cundiff, H. B.
colt and Vim. Gentry as said committee.
On motion, the president of the as
Dciation was added TO the committee.
Mr.. Etue read extracts from speech of
oil. n. j. Colman. referring to the won-
erful increase of weight Of short horns
hich took premiums at a recent fair.
Mr.. Walker claimed that he had fed
II of two and three year Odds in 1872,
hich he sold to his neighbor, T. J. Wal
ice, who was present to bear testimony to
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