The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-02

s YOU know. our cattle require three
~ things before they live They
must have food; they must have water
and they must have air. How many farmers
are willing To give them all the food they
Will eat? Give them all the water they need
and then cut off the air; they close the
stable door soon they go in; they give
them drink. feed them and then so out
and shut of the air and leave them that
way for tho OF the night You know
that any animal deprived of air. if ne should
be absolutely deprived OF ii for very few
minutes. is a dead animal They could live
without water for awhile; they could live
without food for long time. but air Is the
sine qua non. They must have air or they
cannot live.
We have not paid sufficient attention to
the absolute requirement of air in our barns
IL IS a subject that Is creating considerable
stir at the present time. and many Of our
farmers are thinking of it to greater extent
than formerly: everybody is much more in
terestcd in 1t than they ever were before
We do get great deal of nir In our stables
In spite Of the precautions VIC take TO keep
1t out, and it Is n mighty good thing that
do We must have air the digestive
process cannot go on, and in order that the
animals may do the best possible upon ths
food that we give them II Is absolutely
necessary that furnish them with large
supply OF air
Take the where cattle were fed In an
open barn and others fed in a tight box in
a basement stable The animals fed In the
loose, open barn did much the better / have
had men come to me and say; Il have fed
cattle in an old barn with Il few boards
stuck up on the south side and no paper
between, and II 15 remarkable that they did
better than the others that / fed I'm a warm
stable Therefore, I say, while it is inn
portant TO keep cattle comfortable and
to give them every condition necessary for
making gains VIC must consider what we
mean by comfortable conditions Comfort
able conditions that they have lots OF
air. that they be kept dry and that they be
given the right kind of food
To illustrate this point, L want to draw
your attention to an experiment. which VIC
carried on at Brandon last year. We took
bunch of steers and divided them into two
lots. fed one lot in stable fairly well VEN
ttlated about well ventilated as the aver
age stable of our farmers, and another lot
we fed outside without any protection except
a little bit of oak scrub. The lot fed outside
averaged 100 pounds when they started.
about Dec, l. The inside lot weighed about
the same. Both lots fed for 140 days
/ think 1t WAS 13S days TO be exact The
outside lot made 2S4 pounds gain and the
inside lot 75l pounds gain. but the strange
thing OF all was that the outside lot did not
eat quite as much food the inside lot, and.
although they made less gains they made
these gains at quite bit lower cost 1t cost
to produce 100 pounds of gain the outside
lot S567, and it cost to produce 100 pounds
Of gain on the inside lot $500. There is a
difference of about so cents In favor of the
cattle fed outside. In spite Of the fact that
they had to warm up the whole of the out
doors before they could raise their own tenn
perature. and there must have been Il con-
siderable loss Of heat; but I'm spite of this
handicap the great supply OF fresh air seemed
to be sufficient to overcome this difficulty,
l them myself In March and ] never
saw a healthier or brighter bunch OF steers
In all my life excepting possibly a lot l saw
once before little earlier under similar
conditions.