St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-06
CATTLE FEEDING
More Important as the Prices Are
Likely to Improve Soon.

LIKELY TO improve Soon.
Cattle will be better soon, and the
Des Moines Register would advise the
average farmer to study the finishing of
cattle. 1t is poorly understood on most
Farms. The profits that come from feed
ing the steers that grow on a farm are
not comprehended as they should be. We
urge small farmers to tie up two, five or
ten. and observe the conditions. No
large feeder can get such results
as he can who raises the steers
he feeds, and the feed they
eat. The cattle raised on farm do
better there than elsewhere. There is
no expense IN hauling off the grain.
IEere is no shrinkage in buying IN cat
tie. lying up is to be defended, as no.
6ody has done it, and what nobody has
done requires vigorous defense. Tying
up as mich COWS are tied up is the wav
to feed few steers profitably. Thew
are to be fattened on corn. 1t is foIIv
to talk of anything else. Iowa has
the cheapest corn in the uni
verse. States farther east buy our
corn to feed. and could not exist
without it, We think breeding animals
Should have change of feed. but fat
tenlng stock must have corn. 1t is the
pest fattening power known to man.
You may grind it and save corn; you
may cook it and save nore corn, but
with the present prices of corn you can
not afford to do either. We are told
that grinding and cooking will not paw,
They would if help were cheaper.
Grinding and cooking economic feed,
out the cost of labor eats up the econo-
my. The hog will act as scavenger, and
should lie around the feed yard.
In feedlng a pen OF cattle, remember
that an exclusive corn diet can only be
TED with profit till the blood becomes
tnlck and hair comes off. Some change
OF iced is necessary. A little fax,
Dolled, or little flax meal will correct
the arrangement. Roots would answer.
but they cost too much to grow. Oats
are valuable, but not always convenient.
a little lax can be harvested like other
grain anu no extra help need be called
in to do it. The-two-year-old steer will
eat sixty bushels of corn while YOU are
finishing him. Ii he was on your farm
all his days, you have saved many little
commissions and expenses that the
large FEEDER pays out. 1t is part of the
farmers profits. What comes from cat
tie feeding and how to do il. is part of
his education. The younger the steer,
the greater the gain, consequently early
maturity is prime factor in feeding.
line native cattle do not mature early,
lnelr ancestry was required to endure.
rather than mature. They are losing
money Just now, to all who touch them,
we advise the farmers who need ali
that can be made from their business to
finish their own cattle by all means. It
IS department OF the farm that has
been entirely neglected by too MANY.
Cattle feeding as it has been managed
in large yards is not the most ecOnom-
zeal way. The average gain is less than
In small punches. The hogs that follow
Will get disease more readily. Winter
work on the farm should require the
summer help more nearly than it does
at present. We have the finest corn
growing country on earth, and surplus
corn Will always require consumers on
the farm. Behind the steer is, of course,
sire and dam, and that requires attend
ance by itself.
Cattle feeding belongs to the cattle
breeder. 1t has profit peculiar to
Itself that tue average farmer cannot
afford to overlook. 1t teaches the value
of improved cattle as nothing else does.
1t is one of the forces that keeps up
farm fertility. We have been doing it
by proxy. Feeders at home have
gathered cattle by hundreds and bought
corn by the thousands of bushels, and
whether they made profit or not the
farmers who sold to them either corn or
cattle lost certainly the amount they
sold Off the farm, COW or young steers.
Feeders in states east of US have
bought our corn and steers and
put them together. Feeders in
Germany now Waht our thin
steers to finish. Feeders in Britain
have always fed our oil meals. All this
indicates want of knowledge on West
ern farms and want of enterprise. The
dairy enterprise of the STATE has not
helped the feeding department of the
farm: Dairying has paid something of
itself. When butter becomes cheaper
and other profits are necessary, feeding
will be suggested to the minds of dairy
men. We insist dairymen feed their
cattle more. Dairy papers generally
overlook this feature of the farm, this
auxiliary TO the dairy. When the West
doubles its cows for dairy use. this de-
partment of the farm will become i'm.
perative. J,W.