The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-20

dustry in North Dakota by E. d.
Baker, Paramount, N. d.
Corn and How to Feed 1t. A. X.
Bush, Dover, MINI.
Business Meeting Of the Live Stock
Association.
Afternoon session.
The Market Classes of Horses and
How to Produce Them, Prof. w. B.
Richards. Agricultural College, N. D.,
and James Austin, Hannah, N. D.
Physiology Involved in Feeding
Horses, DR.. L. Van Els, Agricultural
College, N. D.
Economic Meat Production, James
Austin, Hannah, N. d.
Breeding Beef Cattle, Hon. VIM. A.
Harris, Chicago. Ill
Evening Sesslon.
Music.
Address by Joseph E. Wing, Breed
ers' Gazette staff.
Foreign Markets for Our Meat Pro-
ducts, Hon. w. A. Harris, Chicago, Ill.
Care and Management OF Beef Cattle.
The following paper was read be-
fore the Tri-State Grain Growers con-
vention at Fargo by w. r. Lanxon, a
student of the Agricultural college,
and produced very favorable impress
sion.
The time begin the care and man
agment of cattle Is when the cows are
bred. They should be kept in good
condition during the pregnant period.
The ideal way is to have them gain
slightly in weight from the time they
are bred to the time they calve.
Breeders recognize this as very sat
isfactory condition, as cows in this
condition will produce stronger and
healthier calves than those that have
been exposed to the elements and are
unthrifty. In summer good pasture
is all that is necessary, but in winter
little grain should be given in addi-
ton to n liberal supply of good rough
age such as corn fodder, clover.
prairie or millet hay. Plenty of eX-
ercis" at all times is essential to the
good health of the cows. \ few days
before the calves are dropped they
should be placed in box stalls. A stall
1QX1O is roomy enough to accommo-
date large animal. With one to two
of these stalls at his disposal farm
er can handle large herd success
fully, as the COWS can safely be re-
moved to single stalls twenty-four
hours after parturition. If the COWS
are to be MIXED, the calves should not
be allowed to remain with them after
they have taken the colostrum milk.
The COWS will not fret so much and
the calves will learn to drink much
quicker when thus separated. If the
calves are to be run with the COWS all
summer it is often necessary to milk
some of the COWS for week or ten
days until the calves are large enough
to consume all the milk. The latter
method Of raising cattle is probably
the easier, but a more uniform and
cheaper bunch can be raised by milk
ing the COWS and feeding the calves
the skim milk into which a little
boiled flax seed or Oil meal has been
mixed.
A number of trials conducted by the
various experiment stations have plac-
ed the cost of raising calves which
run with their dems at between
twenty-five and thirty dollars per head
when twenve months of age; while
those raised on separated smik milk
and ground flaxseed cost but twelve
to fifteen dollars per head at the same
age. The income derived from the
sale of the butter should not be over
looked as it comes in just when the
farmer needs it most. Anyone can let
calf run with a COW and make
pretty good beast of it; but it re-
quires considerable of skill to milk;
and feed a bunch of calves skim milk
and flax seed in such manner that