Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
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recognize the same fact or meet SO
depletion. AS to the kind or kinds OF
stock one should keep, or how they
should be handled, is matter of taste
to some extent and should be governed
by environments.
! When come to look up manurial re-
ports learn, an OK at the Ontario Agri-
cultural college was confined from biIih
until maturity (thirty six monthly In a
box stall on cement floor and during
the whole time, including bedding, made
59, $50 pounds of manure. When l take
two Geneva reports, one Minnesota and
one Cornell report, get daily average
of 68 pounds of manure for COW or a
small fraction over one ton per month,
now how does our friend account for 90
tons from COW In one year.
In Prof. Henry's work on feeds and
feeding, read on page 33S that the
sucking calf should gain pounds per
day for the first month, 21a pounds
for the second month and 2 pounds
for subsequent months, making dis.
crepsncy of abou. 125 pounds between
Prof. Henry and the Tribune writer In
rearing calf to nine months Of age.
Now lat US take the feeder end of the
problem and learn how lots of money
can be made. My friend says feed the
800 pound calf six months and you will
get gain of450 pounds at cost of only
S27.90. Now we will be fsir and yery
liberal, we will throw off shrinksge,
freight,yardsge and commission and see
that 400 pounds of beef in Chicago ON
present markets at surely not over as 40
per hundred, making S24.3O for beef
with q feed charge of 1927. 80 against it.
Can you see lots of money in that deal.
can't, but 1 can see where 1t is lust like
getting 1t from home. when we make
application and there is none at home
to get.
With modesty mention 1 am keep
Ing q good grade of Angus COWS and q
thorough bred Angus male, let my
calves run with their mothers until
about eeyen months of age then If my
calves make an average weight of 45O
to 800 pounds, is all l expect or at least
1t is all get. keep them on bluegrass
pasture and in October or by the first of
November / begin to feed them shelIed
corn and bran mixed just mere
sprinkle until they all get to eating, and
very gradually increase grain rations SO
that by the time they are needing shell
ter and grass is done they are eating
about n of pound of grain to ave
hundred pounds live weight Of calf, and
with q gradual increase I have them on 7
full feed by the nrss NJ :ass.....
,snen.sne grass gets good turn them
out and feed only shelled corn, Just
what they will clean up and by so doing
II my calves at IL 0r 40 mnaths of ACE
weigh 1900 to 1880 pound pounds am
very well satisfied, because they have
been produced with what l produce on
the farm except little bran. have not
had to stuff them with condiments and
high priced concentrates. 1 only have
to keep them one winter and feed at an
age when can make beef cheaper than
with mature cattle, for IT. is Q fact the
younger the animal the less feed re-
quired to make pound of beef. They
(calves)come yearly and grow as 1t were
from the soil and remove almost every
phase of speculation from the cattle
side of business. They give me home
market for what raise and what bet
ter can ! do than to let the calves have
the butter fat for I have no home
market for It outside Of the grocery
store.
JNo. M. SEANEY.
Barry, Ill.