Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-10-27
CATTLE IN WINTER.
How to Feed Live stock for the Early
spring Market.

spring Market.
II we are feeding cattle for the winter
or spring markets they should receive
close attention before winter sets in. |
As soon as grass commences to fall, we
should stable the cattle every night. !
and feed two quarts of cornmeal Give
hay or corn fodder as soon as it will be-
eaten. When we have yarded our cattle
for the winter do not let them out again
till they are driven off to market. After
December l feed four quarts OF cornmeal
and two quarts OF bran, twice day.
For about five weeks previous to sell
ing give six quarts of meal and three OF
bran morning and evening to steer
weighing l,200 pounds. Corn should
be the essential factor in making beef,
mutton and pork. There are other
crops which the farmer can raise ut
a large profit, such rs roots, but
comparatively few farmers raise turnips
and beets for their stock. Yet two or
three feeds week are just what an
animal needs when confined on dry
feed. Half bushel two or three times
week to fifty sheep will do them good
except in extreme cold weather.
They can be fed to cattle with as good
results. A drover told me OF man
who has wintered forty shoates on man
} gelwurzels as the principal food, and
they looked well and were in good
stock order. He cut them up with a
root cutter. and fed in trougls. II you
: are not feeding more than two bushels
} at time, throw them into large box
and with common shovel you can soon
, have them ready to feed.
Keep the steers in the stable most oil
the time; about three hours day il
l long enough for them to exercise and
get water Salt once week. II yol
are caught with hard market and tn,
r time is near for turning out to grass
: don't do it, unless you expect to carr.
y them through for the June market
o They will lose flesh fast for three week
I after being turned out to grass. II W,
n are feeding for the June market on
Q steers can run out longer in the fall
: But 1t will pay to feed one bushel o
o mences to fail. II can be fed out in TIL,
Y lot, but should be broken up. | am o
it the opinion that there is more none,
:. made by lighter feeding and turning O
n cattle off in June than in any othe
% way. Let the grass do some OF the fat
ia tening. Feed, after December up
ir February l, two bushels of ears to te
10 steers; after February fee
a three bushels the rest OF the wiz
is ter, and we should keep up the graf
le for two weeks after we hav
S. turned out to grass. BY the Goth {
d June they will be in good shape.
ir drove of shoates should follow on
ID cattle if fed on corn in the ear, so tht
I'd nothing may be lost. In regard to TIL
lr amount OF hay or fodder, am not PR
I'd pared to say; my plan is to feed all II
IS. cattle and sheep will eat. If we al
Of wintering calves, feed one pint OF shell
10 ed corn and handful of oil meal ont
bs a day. and they will thrive and do wei
Rowen, or fine hay should be part
ut their daily rations. All the catt
to should be stabbed so that each one ca
IS get his share of the food. 1t is expecte
[y that they can have water each day ar
ne are salted each week. Keep the hors'
ur away from cattle; they are liable to g
ng hooked and they will chase and kit
cd the steers Keep each kind OF stot
nd separate. = Z. D. String, IN OH
of Farmer.