Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-10-11

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At convention az Michigan farmers.
thes discussion top one Of. the papers
turned on the profit n farm stock. A
part Of the discussion follows: \
Mr.. Pheipss I wish to draw out'dis-s
cussion OF the question OF profit. !.
claim that five dollars worth Of feed
q year. over and above the ordinary
care or ordinary feed that an animal :
has, will return double.4 In some OF
the bad cases that ! mentioned. iftheyT
had had even five dollars worth more
feed than they did, instead OF bringing
fifteen dollars apiece. the animals
would have brought thirty dollars.
Now ask any farmer II IL pays to
Just keep the animal alive? The only
way can make 1t pay is to have II
progress right from the start until II
Is disposed Of I 60 out among the
farmers Of the town of Avon. and
find hundreds that will carry their cat
tic through the winter and then get
S1h or $50 apiece for them. Their cat
tie are well enough bred to make beef
without any trouble II they will only
give them the feed but they expect to
sell all their grain and keep the ami
mails on the straw stock; or they feed
grain and then water them through q }
half-chopped hole in the Ice and leave :
them out shivering in the winter wind
for hours at time. and then wonder
at getting no profits 1t is the poorest
kind OF policy to sell on all your grain /
and starve your cattle. am an advo--
cate Of thoroughbred cattle, but T.
would not sell to man who thought
would not take good care OF an animal.
Mr.. Van Hoosen: II 1t pays to keep
cattle at I'll. 1t pays to keep them well.
/ saw once an account of d man that
tried an experiment with two pigs. just
Of size and age. He fed one pig just
enough to keep 1t alive, in good sQueal-
Ing order; the other he fed Just one
pound more day. II was wonderful
to see how 1t grew. So you see, It II
the last pound that does the good. It
ti kes just so much to sustain nature.
after that the food goes to flesh and
growth, Now | think 1t becomes all
OF us farmers to keep fewer animals
and keep them better. 4 <
Mr.. Graham: Feeding animals to
make Them grow pays. but to merely
keep them alive has no profit In It.
A ton OF hay worth s12 will just keep
2-year-old alive through the winter
without increasing his weight. and
unless the market has raised so that
our animal is worth more per pound.
we are out OF pocket Just So and our
trouble. have found that any animal
that is kept on barely enough to sus-
tain life becomes stunted, the growth
Is stopped. as one man said about his
pigs. they get shell on them and Il
takes more food 70 start them growing
again. A poorly fed animal does not
grow well shaped. He Is raw-Soned.
big-headed, sharp-nosed. Add few
more bushels to the ration and 1t will
rsake the profit ! can Just keep an
animal alive this winter at the coat OF
summer pasture. Add three cente per
day OF grain and you add from ave to
fifteen cents per day value.
Mr.. Beaker: can not starye an ami
NAL fat. 1t takes certain amount to
keep up animal heat; what is added
to this Is the first profit. II the ami
nal will eat ten quarts OF meal day
extra 1t is SO much profit. have
raised much stock and the nearer thor
oughbred have them the more profit
! ind. A bushel Of grain fed con-
slider equal to one dollar In the value
OF the animal. My experience supports
this. prefer ground feed.