The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-28
WELL FED.
GuilfOrd Dudley Has Been Feed
ing a Hundred Steers
On the Scientific Basis Definite
~ Known as the
BALANCED RATION.
He Will Now Banquet a Few
of His Friends
And "FuII Feed' Them on This
Same Beef.

Same Beef.
! A banquet and entertainment something
! out of the ordinary will be given on Fri
( day evening of this week at the Topeka
| club by Guilford Dudley. Mr.. Dudley is
| not only banker, but is a farmer and
/ stock raiser who gives particular atten-
| ton to what is known as scientific farm
! ing. While this in many instances is not
, reduced to a practical basis, in Mr.. Dud-
ley's case the ideas of feeding stock on
a scientific principle have been reduced to
/ a practical and profitable result.
! Mr.. Dudley is a great advocator OF
what is known as the balanced ration. "
He has shown that it is possible to pre-
pare beef cattle for the market in ninety
| time required by the methods adopted by
| the average farmer, VINO may not nave
given mHeh attention attention to what is known
| Three months ago Mr.. Dudley purchas-
balanced ration In 50 days these steers
were pronounced ripe" and We're sold on
| 40 head of the cattle were. The other
60 having been fed for 81 days were sold
which had been fed for S. days was
| ing house and this is the beef now in cold
storage. which will be prominent on the
! To this banquet Mr.. Dudley has invited
| a score of men prominent in the live stock
industry of Kansas to present papers and
1 make speeches on topics given below A
number of other gentlemen to the capacity
of the dining room have been invited to be
| present IS guests. Attorney General God
we are ali Interested in agriculture, ;"
said Mr.. Dudley to Journal reporter. no
IN f or nof h W is are an rcutnra and
! stock growing state. It is a common
thing for US city People to to- Walsh an nf
! the farmer. For instance, newspaper
maR ]ust w Salf e isn't t coal mer
chant just said, What fine day for the
farmers to harvest their wheat and so it
while I am studying and experiment
Em Mi1t tell v6u a. little incident in con-
nection with the business. In getting
f balanced ration ration 1 was very anxious to
secure all natives. l employed an ex-
fG 'ff looRed the 5afe
| thought 1 had secured what l had bar
in the season, when the steers began to
shed their hair. do you know that halt OF
brands? 1 viii tell you something now
for nothing what has cost me some dol
When a Texas steers is branded, his ears
are clipped. The next time anybody
at the animals ears as critically as I
would look into a horses mouth when L
II am highly pleased. however. at the
result of the balanced ration and the ex-
Duet will find as good beef as they ever
tasted. 1 want them to say what this
beef would have been had it come from
The balanced ration fed by Mr.. Dud..
ley with such success to the 100 head of
cattle was weighed out each day and the
weight OF the average daily rations issued d
the corn and cob up together ,'9o poq1nd1sso;
bran 800 poup3d6os nndeed oil me ca SS
pounds, which would give % pounds Of
nends Of oo6 meal nc aGh Of bran
pounds of oil meal and pounds OF hay
9 81 of protein, which goes to make up the
lean meat; 14.44 of carbohydrates, which
efc and and SO of fat. This ration was fed
to these cattle regularly for from 50 70 y, VI
days. when they were pronounced ready
for the market.
The following is the Prrogr:aImm1!se 6 Of top
les and speakers to follow the balanced
Evolution" Chancellor F. H. Snow
"Proteins of Food Prodgcts" 4;at,o,,
'Experiment stations and IITmproYed, :,
The AsFB5e aianoed Ration l.. raifen'ia
Finished Meat Products 1,;.,ee
Kansas Agriculture, One Of Our ON
.se Time Rggseain George i. " c,o G6ieF
When to Market. Cattle II. P. Miller
Hereford Cattle -......--.C- A Stannard
The fle Public interest in the FaTme r.,
s-cois., w f. II Ro IS Gea5e
6 5efrh FaFme e'i Heroes Judge z r Hazsn
''The Farmer Boy -. Prof: B. f. Eyer
How to Stop Texas Fever
by Design or by Chance" ....::.;;...;.
.................M. w Van Valkenbufg
''The Merchants View - E. H Crosby
Good Farmer-Good Statesman" -:
Lieutenant Governor H. E. RICHTER
S Tys HaM in F Egg6i4g E. b. q co Sma
Those who have been invited to partake
of Mr.. DudIeys hospitality are:
Chancellor F. H. Snow Attorney Cen
erai A A GODDARD. Prof. E. H. Bailey of
the university. Prof, F. T. Fairchild
Governor G. w. Click, Prof. George 1.
CIothier. H. B. Miller of Usage county, c.
A Stannard of Sunny Slope, farm. T.
P Babst, H. T. Chase, W. H. Rossin gton,
J. L. uabarger.. Judge z T; Hazen
Prof B. F. Eyer. DR.. G. C Iritchard. NJ
w Van VaIkenburg. E. H. Crosby, Lieu
tenant Governor H f. Richter. j. D
Small E. B. Cowgirl. Arthur Capper., F.
p MacLennan, Daniel Crosby. A. Fassler
Thos Page. Theo. Hammatt, Bradford
Miller. H. D. Rice. J. F. Cecil, s. H.
Haynes. ]. H. -Neff, Scott Kelsey J. Sims,
Howell Jones, ]. G.. SlOnecker. Albert Par
ker, Judge S. a Kingma,1n, p p Dudley
VIM. o. Ewing. E. j. Dallas, W. GORDON
J. Thomas. Jacob Smith, NJ. A. Low. John
PLAYER ThoS L. EVAN. A c. Davis, J.