The Greeley tribune., 1907-02-28

is supplied when roots are used as
part of the diet. In feeding sugar
beets to cattle as high as fifty pounds
day could be fed to milch Cows and
good milk produced. For beef cat
tie this amount might be increased a
little, cutting down on hay and
grain correspondingly.
When feeding horses don't feed
grain and hay at the same time. and
above all don't water a horse just
after it has eaten good meal. The
water viii wash the undigested feed
out of the stomach and not alone
waste the food, but in many cases
cause collie. III Belgium, where
some of the best horses in the world
are raised, they always keep fresh
water alongside Of the feed and the
horse will take dry and liquid matter
in just the right quantities. As a
horses stomach will only hold about
four gallons Of matter at time it
is just like putting about fifteen
pounds of hay on top Of vessel al /
ready full and then pouring water on
top of all of this to feed horse hay .
on top OF oats and then watering
him Immediately afterward. The /
hay will force the oats out Of the /
stomach and the water in turn wash |
out the hay, thus wasting the feed
completely as we'll as injuring the
health of the animal.
With a COW it is different alto.
gether, owing to its widely different
system of digestion. A good sized .
COW can hold almost fifty gallons of
matter. all of which may be taken
into the body very rapidly. Water
should then be added III order to
start the first process of digestion.
Favors the Hog.
Hog feeding was taken up by Prof. /
Cottrell and he gave it as his opin-
ion that there would be more money
in raising hogs in Colorado than any
other line of farming. Some of the
very best feed for this animal. feed
barley, can be raised even on the dry
land of Colorado in great quantities,
and it not alone produces a superior
quality of pork but will produce
more of it to the acre. An alfalfa
field in which the porKers could run
loose and gather their own feed
would produce between 100 and 500
pounds of pork. This feed supple
mented with the right proportion of
barley could produce more profit to
an acre of ground than almost any
other crop.
Being asked about the best breed
of hogs to raise here Prof. Cottrell
said it was pretty much like select
ing girl. it was matter of which
kind one liked the best. Tam
worths, Poland China. Berkshires
and one or two Others all mad their
points of superiority, according to
what kind of meat one wanted to
produce. For the best bacon the
Tamworths should be the choice, as
it had the quality of producing a
streak of lean and streak of fat.
Senator Ammors Talks.
Senator Z. NJ. Ammons was also
present at the afternoon session and |
gave a talk on cattle raising and
cattle feeding. He urged stockmen
to shorten the time of finishing stock
for market as quickly as possible,
everything else being considered. 1t
has been satisfactorily determined,
he said, that a steer weighing be-
tween 1000 and | 100 pounds would
bring more money than any other
weight that could be placed upon it.
1t is cheaper to produce the first
1000 pounds than to produce the
next 500 pounds.
Get the very best stock you can
and keep a critter growing all the
time from infancy to about IS months
OF age and top it off with grain to-
ward the last and it will make
money for the owner. Keep a steer
until he is three or four years old
and he will almost invariably lose
money for the owner The necessity
for change in the system of feeding
Is becoming more pronounced each
season as the grass area of the state
becomes smaller. The older stock
Kept on the range or in the feed lots
is simply taking the feed and room
that should be reserved for vounger
STOCK, while the old should have
been made into beef long before.
At lutte business session of the
institute it was decided to hold sum.
mer institute and picnic at some
place and at time to be decided by
the executive. committee.
Excellent Entertainment.
The Katharine p i,j,o,u, l..