St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-18
HE TELLS HOW TO STICK FLESH
ON THE RIBS OF LIVE
STOCK.
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS
ARE SET FORTH IN A SMALL BUT
COMPREHENSIVE PAM
PHLET.
For Farmers Who Have the Inter-
est to Feed Their stock Sci
entifcaIIy.

PROF. Thomas Shaw, of the division
! OF animal huSbandry at the state agri-
! cultural college, has just issued a COM
prehenSiVe statement of the results of
the experiments in fattening live stock
made at the college. Many of the sta
tlstlcs In connection have already been
printed, so that perhaps the most in
teresting features of the report are
Prof Shaw's suggestions and conclu-
| sions, which are as follows:
Ihat under its conditions steers averag ging
! i,Oi4 pounds in live weight during the fatten-
! ing period, will consume a daily ration of
twenty-five pounds of corn ensilage, S34
| pounds of hay and $50 pounds of meal or a
total of 41.65 pounds per day.
1t furnishes an illustration of the fair meas
| ure or adaptability for fattening possessed
| by grades of the respective breeds without
| assigning marked superiority to any one
| of them
1t demonstrates the important truth that
| when animals are being fattened they will
| consume more meal than they can properly
| digest and assimilate, even when they do not
get off their feed" hence the necessity for
| adjusting the meal feed to the digestive ca
| pacity of the respective animals.
| 1t shows the necessity of carefulness in
| feeding the meal portion of the ration, as the
| cost of making one pound of increase in
weight with the steers in lot l was but 5.52
| cents, while with those in lot . it was 6.36
cents and with those in lot 619 cents.
The increase in the consumption of meal,
and respectively, did not effect cor
responding decrease in the consumption of
the coarser and cheaper food factors.
1t emphasizes the inability of animals near
y equal in live weight to take similar guam
titles of food, as evidenced by the Shorthorn
grade in lot getting somewhat "off his
feed" while the steers of the other grades
getting food similar in quantity and kind
were not so affected.
The inseparable relation between quality
in food and well-doing in animals is also
emphasized, as when the quality OF the en-
silage of the hay diminished, the eHect
was at once apparent in the decrease in the
gains of the steers.
The fact should be recognized in fattening
cattle that the same diet in kind may not
be equally relished by all the animals, as
witnessed in the shy consumption or corn
ensilage by the steers. No. l in lot and
No. in lot 8, hence, in practice such toous
should not be forced upon them.
Wheat at S15 Sc per ton, or AIS cents per
bushel. can be fed with advantage ana prom
to steers that are being fattened, when the
prices of the other food factors USED ana also
of the meat are as in this experiment.
If the food given to the steers IN lou
had been charged at home values, the cost
of making the increase in the llVe WelSht
during the experiment proper would nave
been less than the cost OF the 1000 useo G IN
making it,, result not otten reallzeu III ILL
ishing cattle for the block
In fattening steers when the difference be-
tween the buying and the selling price per
pound live weight is IA cents, good prollt
of the beef breeds when the relation between
the prices of food and meat are the same
as in this experiment.
The value of the animals was nearly
doubled in feeding for 140 days, since the
value of the animals at the commencement
of the experiment was $2Sb.5S' ana the IN
pertinent was $271.02, hence the WISDOM OF
| fattening cattle upon arabic farms on when
| they may have been reared. .o
This experiment emphasizes the lInpolldnce
of selling fat animals with promptneSS Wneh
! the conditions of sale are favorable, as the
profits from carrying the steers throusn liie
| after experiment were reuuceu u 'he eN'eN'
| of $40. O5. ,-,,4
Weii-fnished steers with an average weight
| of about 1000 pounds, viii lose apout oO
| pounds each in live weight when left IN tne
! stall without food or water for htteen hours'
A special chapter is devoted to lambs.
relating the diet to which they were
! subjected, the results attained, the
| prices for which the meat was sold, as
| compared with prevailing prices for
| other lambs, and the following con-
! clusions:
! That lambs possessed of sufficient quality
| for winter feeding are not plentiful in the
state since no little searching had to be made
| before suitable feeders could be found
That with the rations used, lambs that are
| being fattened in winter consume about three
| pounds of food per day for every 100 pounds
| Of live weight.
That the average gain made by the lambs
| in this experiment was 922 pounds per month,
| and without any succulent food as, for in
| stance, ensilage or field roots.
That in this experiment the average cost OF
making one pound of increase in live weight
5.44 cents, or less than the cost or pro-
| ducing 1t, a result which is not seldom at
| tained in winter fattening.
| That lambs do not gain so rapidly in cold
| weather as when the temperature is moderate,
| Notwithstanding the greater consumption of
| food.
That in this experiment the greatest profit
obtained from the lambs which were fed
! a limited grain ration of wheat screenings and
! oil cake and which were allowed liberty of
| access to shelter at will; that next to these
| come the lambs fed under cover, and that the
least profit arose from the lambs to which
wheat and oil cake were fed.
| That since the cost of one pound of increase
| in live weight with the lambs which were fed
| wheat and oil cake but All cents during
the first period of feeding as against 23.11
| cents during the last period, prompt market
| ing soon good gains cease to be made is
| greatly important.
| That since the lambs in lot fed we'll and
gained rapidly during the first periods of the
| experiment, and since they fed indifferently
and gained but little during the last period OF
| the same, a grain portion of wheat and oil
cake, though we'll adapted to short periods OF
feeding, is not well adapted to prolonged pc
riods of the same.
That wheat screenings and oil cake is a
more suitable grain food than wheat and oil
cake for heightened periods of feeding.
That any one of the methods adopted in fat
! tening lambs may be expected to succeed at
least fairly well when due attention is given
! to the work.
lambs more than doubled during the period
! of feeding, since they were bought at aver
age price of $3.16% per animal and sold for
an average price of S6731a.
Carl Neuhausen's Funeral.
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