Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-13

NAL for but one or two minutes is not to
be compared with injuries cattle Inflict
on each other with their horns when
massed together Professor Gulley.
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Professor F. A. Gulley of the Texas
experiment station has been conducting
series of experiments to determine the
question Of whether or not common
unimproyed Texas steers can be fattened
with profit, and in conducting these ex-
periments has used both cows and
steers. He began feeding the cattle on
January 8, and with the steers ended
March 81, eighty-three days in all. The
feeding of the COWS ended in February
In the bunch of COWS fed there were
eight head, and their feed 1.-TWO feeds
each day. cost S32 II. The gain
in flesh of these cows aggregated
1925 pounds, making the cost
for each pound of flesh gained s II cents, :
These COWS were fed with silage, corn
fodder, cotton seed cooked, cotton seed
meal and cotton seed raw. In one of
the pens there were six. steers, the aver
age weight of which when feeding began
was 696 pounds. These stedrs,were fed
silage hay and cotton seed meal. the
total cost of feeding during the time
mentioned being S45. 68, making the gain
.sper, pound 4 AT cents. The professor had
ninapens of.eattle, six head in each pen,
except IN the COW pen, where there were
eight, tand the cost of feeding
ranged from S25. 80 to S53 .95 and the
gam in pounds per pen ranged from 722
pounds to4210 pounds. Che cost of pro-
ducing this gain in flesh per poflnd
ranged frouta. So cents to 6 ,63 cents ae-
.leF6ing to the condition of the cattle ana.
the food given them, each pen of cattle
being fed with different provender.
In summingHpTesult the professorsays
that the experiment, Indicates that
silage and boiled cottolff seed is the
cheapest andsmost rapidfattening rations
.aef the feedstuffs used 2 Cotton seed
meal and cotton seed hulls. 3. Cot
ton seed meal, cotton seed hulls and
silage. 4. Row cotton seed and silage.
s.. Corn and hay at the prices paid.
Two things are essential in fattening
cattle, first to keep them quiet and COM
Portable, and second to. induce them to
eat the largest possible amount of nutri-
tiOus food
Professor Gulley adds: "The asser-
tion is often made that such cattle can
not be fed with profit, and it is probably
true in the Northern states. Our eXpe
riment shows that if such cattle can be
procured at cents per pound gross, in
ordinary condition, and sold at "a to 3
cents, after adding from 80 to 200
pounds to the gross weight, that the in
ferior native Texas steer may be
profitably fed on the rations of
pens Nos. 8, 4, 6 and Z, and probably 2
and s, if dehorned and sheltered At
present there is profit in growing steers
on the range and selling at cents gross
when the steer is about three years old.
Admitting this to be the case there would
be still more profit in breeding and rails
ing a good class of grades, for they
would, if properly handled, weigh more
at same age and the cattle feeder could
afford to pay a to p cent more per pound
for graded steers to feed. For these rea-
sons we selected the poorest grade of
Texas cattle to begin our work, believing
that if it can be satisfactorily demon
strated that such cattle can be fed with
profit, it would have greater influence IN
encouraging the improvement of native
cattls than if we had selected good grade
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