Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-29

~ Tie Business.
ife experiment station of the Kan
SdS Agricultural College has recently
punished the following bulletin:
III t0fcih2 calves for baby beef. the
feeder mast remember that the calves
are babies and must be treated as
Such 10 secure the greatest gains.
ID 1eeder who loves them and pets
mem and never allows a harsh word
u oe spoken in the fend-lot will get
many more pounds OF gain from his
ieea man Will the feeder who simply
patS an equal amount of feed in the
BOXES and Kicks calf when it gets in
MS way The striking difference
SHOWN II an experiment in the cost
OF gain from calves that had been
pelted Tor six months while on skim
milk. caves that had been raised in
small IA tHres and were ordinarily
tame and wild range calves emphasize
this
Inc Iced should be fresh and paat-
x,
shoulG be fed in such way as to in
duce them TO eat the greatest pos
slDle amount and yet come to the feed
boxes hungry at every feeding. The
leedlns should be done regularly to
the minute. Water and salt should be
before them all the time. and both
should be palatable. We prefer loose
salt, and place it in the boxes under
the sheds. Fresh salt should be Dlac-
eel In the boxes at least twice each
week, and care must be taken to see
mat the salt does not cake and hard
Ell, II il does the calves will not eat
enough for best results
The best results will be obtained by
ieedlng the grain mixed with the
roughage, and the mixing is best
when done in such way that each
particle of grain is taken into the
mouth attached to piece of rough
age. When this is done the calves
chew the greater part Of the grain
over a second time with the cud.
Greater gains are made from each
hundred pounds of gain, securing and
getting off feed not Troublesome
In stormy weather it will pay the
feeder to stay in the feedlots with the
calves all day. In bad weather
calf feels blue" just as human be-
ing, and often, if left to himself, will
not eat. When the calf does not eat
he will not gain. At such times. if
the feeder who has petted his calves
will stay in the feed-ot. stir up the
feed in one boN, freshen it in an
other, and Offer saadful to the calf
that is rot eat. calf will come
around his feede5 :. eompanic. ship,
and, after he has had a few moutafuls
Of feed, viii find that he is hungry and
will eat a hearty meal The calf
makes a good gain from that day
feed.
Care and kindness do ~, eost
money, but come from though .u!ness
and love for animals They pa.
What does the production OF baby
beef mean? Nothing to the ranchman
who has cheap pastures; complete
change in the methods of crop-produc-
ton and Of feeding TO the farmer with
hiGh-priced limited pas1ures
The farmer who raises and fattcns
mature steers has to furnish pasture
for his COWS the yearlings, the two
yearolds, and often 1oi the jh:oe-year-
old steers. He waits three years from
the time TIE calf is born until he
realizes on the investment, and only
onefourth Of his herd are COWS pro-
luce baby beef, he can fill his pas
ture to the full limit with COWS pro-
ducing calves, and he will realize on
the calves twelve months from the
date of their birth. Capital is turned
annually instead of once in every
three years. The farmers grain will
produce from so to 100 per cent more
pounds of baby beef than it will of
beef from mature steer, and for the
past three years the baby-beef ami
NAL has sold for as high prices per
hundred as has the average steer.
In producing baby beef, the farmer
can market his heifer calves at the
same price as his steers, and will
usually get more for the twelve
months-old heifer than he would for
the same animal if kept until ma
.urity-