The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-20
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yearlings.
AS soon as the salves will eat they
should be fed liberal amount Of
grain. A mixture of bran, crushed
oatsand barley, one third of each by
weight is good. About the fifteenth
of May early calves may be turned
into pasture apart from the older cat
tie; but they should still be taken up
twice day to receive milk and a
feed of the above ration. A serious
mistake is often made by stopping the
milk and feed supply and letting the
calves rustic living as best they
may. A properly raised calve should
receive milk until 1t is six months old
and grain enough to keep it in good
condition until it is a year old. Any
other treatment will result in q
stunted animal with very large head
and an enormous belly.
Any one who undertakes to start a
stunted calf to growing has a big job
on his hands. 1t is therefore to great
advantage to keep them growing from
the time they are dropped until the
heifers become cows and until the
steers are ready for the block. As
winter approaches the calves should
be placed in comfortable stalls or al
lowed to run together in lunches of
ten or twelve. Three pounds per head
per day of the bran, oats and barley
ration in addition to liberal supply
of good hay, corn fodder or other
roughage should be sufficient to keep
them in a growing healthy condition.
Any one fortunate enough to have a
silo filled with good corn silage will
find it splendid material on which to
raise young cattle. The green silage
tends to put them under summer feed
conditions and it gives them that
thrifty vigorous appearance which
breeders like to see.
The calves should be allowed the
run of a sheltered yard for short
time each day but should not be left
out until they SILVER and get chilled
through as too much food is being
used in the shape OF animal heat when
they chill and SILVER Growing calves
that shiver are like heating house
with the windows open. If the calves
are given good care during the first
winter they may be carried quite
cheaply the second winter as they are
Older. stronger and much better able
to shift for themselves at that time.
When year old beef calf should
weigh between eight and nine hun
dred pounds. The second summer
they may be run in the pasture with
the other cattle if necessary although
they will do better in separate field.
Young cattle seem to do better when
kept by themselves. Salt and sulphur
mixed at the rate of ten parts of salt
to one of sulphur should be placed
where the cattle may have access to
it at all times. In the fall the steers
and the heifers that are not kept for
breeding purposes should be placed in
the feed lot where they may be fed
ear corn or ground barley lightened
with bran. Three parts of barley and
one of bran. by weight, is about the
right proportion. Corn fodder, corn
slower. prairie or millet hay will serve
we'll for houghage.
After one hundred twenty days feed
ing on the above ration the cattle will
be ready for market and should aver
age from 1000 to 1,4O0 pounds. That
is very attractive market weight and
good grades of a beef breed which are
well fed find ready market at good
figure. BY following what is called
from teat to block" method, the far
.mer will not have to divide profits
with the cattle jobber. Cattle from
North Dakota are not shipped into
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, unloaded. fed
and re-shipped to Chicago just for the
fun of. handling them. Depend upon
1t there rs a good profit for every man