The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-10-31
COST OF PRODUCING MEAT

Researches Showing That 1t Depends Upon
the Mode of Feeding and the Preparation
of the Food,
When, with the aid of science, the
farmer can SO govern his operations as
to regulate the cost of production, and
adapt his pastures and crops to special
objects, he will not only be enabled to
convert his produce into the most salable
commodities, but understand how to sc.
cure the greatest amount at the lowest
cost. In order to determine the rela-
tive value of different feeding materials,
Professor Brown, of the Ontario expert
mental farm, devoted nine years to care
full experiments for that purpose, and
his results show that while a greater and
more rapid increase of flesh is secured
from certain feeding materials, yet they
are not always the cheapest. The heavi-
est weight per day was obtained by feed
ing sugar beet, assisted with hay and a
mixture of grain, which gave 2.70
pounds at cost of l2} cents per pound.
while permanent pasture produced 2.05
pounds at q cost of only two cents per
pound. No doubt the difference in cost,
was the labor of preparing the food, the
pastures being ready for the stock, while
the mixed diet was prepared. There
was also difference in the quality OF
the pasture. Permanent grass gave
better results than pasture from which
a crop of hay had been taken, rs the
hay pastures produced only 1.l5pounds,
at 4 cost of five cents per pound.
Even when using hay its value de-
ponds upon its preparation and quality.
Hay, roots and bran, without grain,
gave a daily gain Of PA pounds, at
cost of nine cents per pound; but
the most costly food, though apparently
the cheapest, was uncut hay and roots.
with bran and corn, which produced
1.76 pounds, at cost of fourteen cents
per pound, while cooked hay, roots and
bran, with uncooked grain, gave 100
pounds, at a cost of only nine cents per
pound. Thus it appears that cutting
The hay and using gave q larger profit
than the uncut hay, roots and corn, the
difference being so great as to be easily
noticeable. Simply cutting the hay added
to the profit and lessened the cost; for
while the uncut hay and roots, with bran
and corn, gave 1.76 pounds, at cost Il
fourteen cents per pound, the same
food, excepting that the hay was
cut, gave gain of 2.lO
pounds, at cost of a fraction over
eleven cents a pound. Here we have
more labor employed in order to cut the
hay, but the daily gain was sufficiently
large to more than compensate for the
labor and lessen the cost of production.
Although turnips and mangolds are con-
sdered cheap feeding materials, and
gave large daily gains when used in con-
nection with other foods, yet they did
l not lessen the cost to the extent expected,
for when, Fuapgolds were fed with hay
and & MIXTURE of grain, although the
daily gain was 2.3S pounds, yet the cost
, per pound was 10l cents. Turnips fed
in the same manner gave nearly equal
. results.
4 The concentrated foods gave good re.
\ suits on the gain. and in some cases
a were cheaper than was supposed, but
much depended upon the manner il
which they were fed. Corn, with hay
. roots and bran, produced two pounds
daily, at cost of 81 cents per pound
AS this is almost the same food tina
}. gave 1.76 pounds. at fourteen cents pc
. pound, it is owing to the difference il
proportions that the cost varied. Cats
fed in the same manner as corn, CAV
- LEA pounds, at cost of ten cents pc
pound.
From the above it is deduced tina
y. profit does not depend upon the rapidit
~ of grain in weight daily, but upon III
" cost per pound, and that the cost is reg
ulated not only by the labor require,
and the value of the food, but upon tn
mode OF feeding and the preparation @
70 the food 1t must be so varied as to al
tain the best results in the cheapest man
-, ner, and the kind of food does not affec
the result so much as improperly mix
" ing them or giving an excess of some
IL thing not required, while emitting this
which may be very important. TIL
" value of feeding materials should b
studied by all farmers. The exper
ments mentioned above show that
farmer may have a valuable amount {
O feeding material that might be col
: verified into beef, and yet such be-
u would be costly unless the materia
" were fed in such manner rs to cauS
7, rapid increase Mt the least expense. TIL
s. addition of single material may att
III the result, and even the character an
" quality of the stock are important fa
: tors in the matter.-P Philadelphia Rec0r
OF From what l have seem" said Il
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