Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-15
Many Franklin County Stock
men Find 1t Prolitablein Both
Cattle and Hogs
E. H. MALLoRYs FINE CATTLE
Ten Loads of Big Broad Backed
"Whitefaces" Have Been on Feed
Nearly a Year-F. C. Beed's Plan
Summer Feeding on Mott Farm
Wilson'S Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
Hampton, Oct. 15.--Several of the
heavy stock feeders OF this section.
are following the plan of summer feed
ing their hogs and cattle, and some Of
the smaller feeders are fitting their
stock for market during the warm
months of the year. Mr.. Il. II. NAL
lory has ten loads Of big broad-backed
white faces" OH his farm near this
towna which have been on feed for
nearly q year. His plan is to buy higl,
grade animals of about 900 pounds
weight In western market In the fall,
keep them on half feed during the
winter, turn them into the pasture
early in the spring-as early as April
IL this season-and keep them on full
feed thereafter until they are shipped.
He gives several reasons for this
method. He finds it convenient as both
cattle and hogs are in the fields and
away from the buildings nearly all the
time eight, months of the year. This
makes the work of cleaning after them
much easier than where they are win
ter fed The hogs do better than by the
other method, pastures are not eaten
down so closely in the fan, and are
consequently much earlier in the
spring, and cattle brought in from the
west are given time to become used to
the grain ration gradually. OF course
the pasture must be enclosed with a
tight fence, where feeding is done in
this way, but it Is doubtful If any one
owning $100-land can afford to have 1t
fenced In any other manner.
For a long feed Mr.. Mallory prefers
high grade cattle, as price near the
top must be secured to permit such al
method, for short feed he would buy
the cheaper, grades. His success in
getting good prices is shown in the
fact that for ten loads of cattle mar !
keted in as many consecutive months
last year. his stuff netted him better
than six cents a pound at home.
+. c. Beed, another prominent farm
er and feeder. has a blue grass pasture
on which he turns no stock during the
summer, reserving it for early spring.
As soon as the snow was gone this
year he began feeding twenty one high |
grade steers of his own raising, giving /
them the range of the unused pasture
and all the corn they would eat. Dur
ing the first sixty days they made a I
daily gain of three pounds each, and I
two and a half pounds for the sue
ceedng ninety days. He has them on
his place yet, and they are literally
Immense" On the big Mott farms
near here, where several hundred steers T
are fed each year, summer feeding Is
and the cattle shipped at in
tervals, a carload being marketed
whenever one can be picked out that is
considered by the owners as ready to
go.
AS an Illustration of what farmers
are receiving for their marketed stock,
.hese days check for $40.S2, taken in
4 business transaction, furnishes an
The paper was signed by a
ocal stock buyer, and on the margin
we're written the words, two hogs
About the only complaint heard along
he rural routes is the scarcity of help
The building of new railroad thru
his part of the country has made mat
els WOISC III ILLS ICSpSCI lilcIl llllu
there at 81 day, and the
is that thu farmer does
lis work himself.
sss
A considerable number Of the farm
RS of this vicinity are turning their
ttention to the raising of potatoes for
he market, with very satisfactory re-
ults. Several have bought potato dig
ers, and the owner Of a machine digs 4
lis neighbors' potatoes at $3.50 per
ere. AS four acres is about an aver
ge days work. ten or twelve days
way from home pays for machine
nd at the same time the employer
cts his crop harvested better and
heaper than by the old method. One 6
own man purchased digger and has p
cen busy with it turnout the potato I
arvesting season. One day last week O
e was working for a GARNER living s
ight miles out Of town. SoHle of the !