Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-30
OF INTEREST TO sTocKMEN
LAMB FEEDING IN NEBRASKA
WEIGHTS AND COST OF ZEE.
Profitable Whe Handled Risht-For-
eiEn Exports of Cattle, sheep
and Beef-yisitors at the
Yards With Stock.

Lamb feeding is carried on very extern
sively now in Colorado, Kansas and Ne
braska, and feeders nave been meeting
with good success the past few years. The
following memorandum of weights, cost,
feeding expenses, etc, of lambs fed in
yards at Beaver City. kas.. during last
winter, as described in Wool Markets. is
therefore interesting. The lambs wers
Mexicans and were bought in Antonio.
Col. They Were received October 70, at a
cost of "a CENTS a pound at the cars. They
weighed % pounds. which. with buying ex-
the theta lambs aba e coss 81! u a head P Iaid dew maze ae
Beaver City. Dipping twice and expenses
OF hay and grain fed for two weeks WAS
b cents each.
Cost of corrals and water works was Sc:
salt, &c; interest on investment. six months,
loc; labor cost, including night Waterman.
nc; insurance, &c; three and t~hree-qudrter
bushels OF corn at an average. of lec, 6c:
80 pounds of hay, mostly alfalfa. at an
average cost of SIS a ton. delivered in
ket. including I'D feed in transit at Bea-
yer: extra freight on increase weight,
yardage, commission and feed. was CSC,
making a total cost of an S-pound lamb
S.5s, or a cost on market OF S4.21 per cwt.
These lambs were fed $50 days. averaged
a.2 ggasSs at % Omaha ans @ and $50 ana IN c elHasa.
the very top for the day they went on.
During the first three months of feed the
lambs averaged a little over Il. pounds
alfalfa hay each day. During the last
three months a little over one pound a
day.
was very light, running from one-eighth
pound of corn a day on the start to one
half at the end of thirty days Second
month We averaged from three-quarters
to one pound a day. The next two months
they averaged one pound a day. The last
two months we fed all they would clean up
In two feeds, or nearly an average of Ia
pounds a day. The grain was fed in clean
troughs at sunrise and about 0 O'Clock y.
m, and the troughs were cleaned out ana
turned over at night to keep out snow.
rain or dew. The water troughs in each
nay yards We're kept free from Ice and
sc1u6bed daily with q broom and fresh
through the day The hay was fed twice a
day. all they could clean up. in racks.
allowing one foot for each lamb SO all
could eat at once.
The same room was allowed for grain at
the troughs- In shipping. 10 to 1g3 were put
on each deck in 36-foot cars. 1t is we'll to
have the Slated cars fully battened or
Slated on the north side so as to keep out
the blasting effects of a driving snow storm
ket- 1t Is better also to have some bedding
on the decks so that the lambs may rest
more comfortably while lying down. They
will fat but little il any while in transit
and Will shrink a good deal. especially if
tney strike the market on a cold. wet day
when everything is out of sorts and all
prices are ruling lower.
The reports of cattle. sheep and dressed
peel iroHl tne Atldntc ports last week
We're: Cattle. SSH; sheep. $40, and quar-
tiers Of beef, 81 .239.
Kansas City led all the Western markets
in its cattle receipts yesterday. They foot
ed up 200 more than Chicago, st. Louis and
Omaha combined.
W have plenty of hogs in Bourbon
county, but cattle are short said j. N.
Holt. Of Redfield. kas-, yesterday. who was
here with hogs. Corn was a fair crop with
US and there is plenty Of ~roughness. But
our farmers are not inclined to feed very
heavy this season, and there Is more feed
than cattle to consume it,"
"In Nemaha county cattle are short this
season." said n. E. Saylor. of Sabetha,
kas.. who was here yesterday with cat
tie. But We have more hogs than usual.
Corn is half a crop and there is plenty Of
roughness. Our farmers, however, have
been shy of high priced feeders and have,
therefore. bought less freely this fall"
Butler county will feed more cattle this
winter than last" said Knox Bros. of
Kelley. Kas.. who were here yesterday with
cattle and hogs. we raised a good corn
crop. and there is plenty of r~oughness, and
the usual number Of hogs and healthy. The
situation is favorable for feeding and Uur
farms are well stocked with cattle"