The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-13
CATTLE FEEDING EXPERIMENT.
Stock Foods and Bye Products Q.
Corn, Etc, Will. Be Tested.

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Ames, March 10.-In response to the
many hundred inquiries received by
the animal husbandry department of
the Iowa experiment station relative to
the feeding value of stock foods and
bye products of corn, flaxseed and cot
tonseed for cattle feeding purposes,
Prof. w. j. Kennedy, through the CO.
operation of Mr.. Albert E. Cook of
Odebolt has inauguarted an experiment
which should produce results of great
value to cattle feeders all over the
| country. The work is being conducted
| on scale that should warrant reli-
able results. Eleven lots of twenty
| head each are on feed. A uniform
bunch of hogs is following each lot.
The steers are from 211 to 3 years of
age, and are high grade Shorthorns,
Hereford and Angus, purchased by Mr..
Cook in Western Nebraska. Hay and
straw will be used for roughage and
crushed snapped corn, to be followed
by corncob meal, will form the corn
| part of the grain ration.
Lot 1 is being fed crushed corn and
cob and roughage.
Lot Q, crushed corn and cob, oil
meal and roughage.
Lot 8, crushed corn and cob, cotton.
seed meal and roughage.
Lot 4, crushed corn and cob, gluten
meal and roughage.
Lot 5, crushed corn and cob, Buffalo
gluten feed and roughage.
Lot 6, crushed corn and cob germ
oil meal and roughage.
Lot Z, crushed corn and cob, dried
blood and roughage.
Lot s, crushed corn and cob, Iowa
stock food and roughage.,
Lot 8, crushed corn and cob, stand.
ard stock food and roughage.
Lot 10. crushed corn and cob, inter.
national stock food and roughage.
Lot IL, crushed corn and cob and
roughage; this lot to be grazed on a
good blue grass pasture as soon as
grass season arrives; to be fed in COM
parison with lot /, which will be fed
dry feed for roughage.
The feeding period will be of five or
\ six months duration. f. r. Marshall,
assistant in animal husbandry, selected
the cattle out of bunch of 700 and
made the final division. Mr.. B. j. Kin.
ger, of the department of animal hus-
bandry, will do the feeding. The re.
suits of this experiment will be pub.
lished. in bulletin about the first of
September next. This experiment
should furnish some valuable data in
regard to the effect of cottonseed meal,
when fed to cattle in moderate quaint
ties, on the hogs which follow the cat.
tie.
An open switch caused a disastrous
wreck in the yards of the Iowa Cen
trail at Grinnell. A double-header
freight standing on the sidetrack was
run into by another north bound
double header. Two engines and
several cars were demolished The
engine and train crews jumped and
escaped injury.
w. H. Brent a bachelor, GO years
old, making his home with John Davis,
two miles east of Audubon, suicided in
a fit of dependency, putting re-
volver in his mouth and firing cart
ridge into his brain The first time
the cartridge failed to explode. The
second time did the work, the bullet
lodging in the brain and death was
apparently instantaneous.
They never say in Boston that a
child is born with silver spoon in its
mouth" Egbert-"what do they say,
then? Bacon-"That it came into the
world with gold-rimmed eyeglasses"
An Eastern manufacturer of bicycles
being compelled to go away on bus
mess trip about the time an interest
ing domestic event was expected, left
orders for the nurse to wire him re.
suits according to the following form
4 ula: If boy, "Gentleman's safety ar.
rived" If a GIRL "I.ady's safety ar
rived" The fathers state of mind
may be imagined when, few days
later, he received telegram contain.
ing the one word; Tandem"