Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-12-31
PROFIT OF FEEDING.
some Interesting Correspondence on the
Adyisability of Feeding Young Cattle
SIR. }. Ii. Canada Gives Figures
showing Gains on His Thirty
Head of Yearling Here
fords.
From the Mexico Intelligencer.

fOrds.
From the Mexico Intelligencer.
The following correspondence
fully explains itself and will be of
special interest to cattle feeders:
Mr.. j. III. Canada, Sturgeon, NO.:
CHICAGO, December IL, 1885,.
DEAR SIR: The 80 head of yearling
Herefords that you recently mar
keted in Chicago for Truesdell &
Clark which sold for $500 must
have been very superior lot, and
this being the case we beg to solicit
from you full statement as to
their gains at different periods,
weights, etc., and any particulars
concerning their management that
wonld LIKELY he Of any interest to
the farming community. We
should particularly like to know
how they were fed and handled,
kind of feed stuffs used as to length
of time on full feed. If you are SO
disposed we should also be glad to
have you state whether or not they
made you profit and if SO how
muchl
In these times stock raisers are
anxious to learn all they can from
the experience of others and we
hope you will be willing to con-
tribute your share to the common
fund of information. Please for
ward the desired information by an
early mail. We enclose stamped
envelope for reply.
Respectfully yours,
SANDERS PUB. Go.
To the Breeders Gazette:
STURGEON, Mo-, Dec. 1S.-At your
solicitation l send you an account of
the feeding, gains, etc., of the thirty
head of Hereford yearlings marketed
by Truesdell 81 Adams at Chicago on
the 10th of the present month.
Twenty-Five of them were calved on
our own farm, where they were
raised and fed. Five were bought
from neighbor at weaving time.
They were the get of thoroughbred
Hereford bull and seven of them
were from pure bred Hereford cows.
They were weaned September 20,
1895, and their average weight at
that time was 375 pounds. They
were weighed on the following dates
afterwards and weighed as follows:
December IA, 4s3 December 80, sos;
January 80, 592, February 80, 657;
March 80, 7O5; May 2s, s54; July 80,
1913 August 81, 1899; September 80,
1161 October 80, 1926; November 80,
1876; December 6, when sold, 1880.
From the time they were weaned to
April 90, 1896, they were fed twice
day, about all they would eat up
clean, of a feed mixed as follows,
by weight: One-half shelled corn,
one-fourth ground oats, one-fourth
equal part wheat bran and shorts.
If at any time it was discovered that
they had not cleaned up their feed
within an hour or SO after feeding
they received less at their next feed.
The cost of the feed consumed by
each animal from September 20 to
April 90 averaged $3.50 per head per
month, or 1910 per head for the
seven months. OF course as the
calves grew older they consumed
more feed, but 81. 80 was the average
cost per month per head of the grain
feed. They had all the good timothy
and clover hay they would eat all
the time and no account was kept of
the hay, as twenty-five or thirty
hogs ran with the cattle and /
considered the gain made by
the hogs would equal the hay.
April the Goth they were turned on
20 acres of good blue grass pasture,
but were not weighed at the time
Of turning out, but taking their
average daily gain from March goth
to May 2Sth, we think it perfectly
safe to say that on April Goth they
would have weighed $50 pounds, or
a gain of 1856 pounds in seven months
at cost for grain fed of 1910 per
head. From the time they were
turned on grass the 80 head were
fed seven bushels of shelled corn a
day, the amount being increased
as the calves grew older,
as we were aiming to feed about all
they would eat up clean. August
LIST we commenced to feed old process
oil meal, about one pound day per
head, and continued to feed this
way, increasing gradually, until the
cattle were weighed December Sth.
From April goth to the time they
were sold, z months and 18 days,
the average cost of the feed con-
sumed by each animal was $17.25,
or 1925 per head per month, and
the gain for z months and IS days
was $50 pounds per head. We
charge nothing for the 90 acres of
grass, as we considered in this case
that 25 or 80 hogs that followed the
cattle would gain sufficiently to pay
for the grass. / consider this feed
ing test quite important as it thor
oughly demonstrates that it takes
nearly double the feed to produce
100 pounds of gain during the sec
ond year Of the calf's life that it
takes the first. During the first
seven months of this feeding 1856
pounds of gain was made at a cost
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