The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-16
KNOWS HOW
TO FEED STOCK
A Redwood Farmer Who is Manu-
featuring Beef and Pork
With SOC Corn.
Solves the Help Problem by Doing
Work in Convenient, Sys-
tematic Way.

If one wants to see in one trip
some of the best stock in Redwood
county and get an object lesson in
what one man can do to make it so
there is no better place to visit than
the Shaver farm, south of the city,
where D. w. Banker is turning
grain and coarse feed into some of
the finest beef, pork and mutton
that will reach Chicago during the
coming year.
He is feeding something over 30
head of cattle and 100 hogs for the
market. The cattle are in part
Polled-Angus and partly grade
Shor thorn stock. The hogs are
mixed but among them are a num-
Der taken from the VIM herd-as
uniform Poland China as though
carved from the same block. Be-
sides the feeding cattle there are
six or eight cows, about as many
horses and so sheep on the place, and
D. W., with the help of two boys,
the oldest but 10 years old and both
regular attendants at school, are
doing all the work. That's gong
some.
i He is feeding from IL to Is BUSH
els Of corn per day to the steers and
hogs with the best Of timothy hay
and good, clean straw for..roughage.
It is somewhat as surprise when D..
w. informed the party visiting him
that the stock were not eating to
exceed a couple of tons of hay per
day and did not seem hungry for it
as they got about all the roughage
they cared for from the husks on
the snapped corn. This lot Of stock
was all bought by Mr.. Banker, be-
ing picked up as lot suited him,
the cattle costing about $3 80 per M
, on an average, and the hogs varying
from $3.50 to SIS.
Besides the cattle on the Shaver
place Mr.. Banker has about 80 cat
, tie and so hogs on his old farm about
: two miles east. These, he says, are
more uniform than the ones at the
; Shaver place. All the grain fed or
the latter place has been purchased
3 and while he bought some at bar
+ grain in the field the larger part Off
t is SO cent corn, which he is chang
$ ing into toothsome beef, mutton anC
r pork every day. The stock is al
gaining rapidly in weight and i
some of it does not top the marke
o when sold, merit will not get its re
v ward. In shipping it is graded s.
i that as shipped the stock is uniform
e in quality and weight.
$ Mr.. Banker is man who. system
e atizes his work and thus is able t
t accomplish what almost stagger
) belief. He has good water an
plenty of it always before the stock
He feeds his grain by hauling
by teams to the feed boxes and hi
l. sheds and barns. while not elaborat
y or costly, are well planned and cas-
r to do work in. The stock has shed
h for nights and stormy weather an
l. at such times can be fed out of tn
e storm. Generally they are fed
g the sheltered stock yards as the
d prefer to eat there when the weatf
s er permits. The yard where some
e thing over 20 steers are kept an
e where the hogs stay generally
E about 200 feet square and surround
d ed by tight board fences or by shec
n and stables and around this to tn
r north and west is a well-grow
r, grove, D. W., with one of his quizz
lie cal chances, said. well, it doesn
e. take so much corn to fatten til
n stock, if you can keep the winds o
h them. I would save some more
r that grove west was as tight as Il
one north"