The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-19
QUESTIONS OF THE FEED LOT.
Three Pounds Peg Thousand

HaVe an opportunity to get ten
or fifteen tons Of cottonseed meal
from our local dealer for s35 per
ton, cost laid down $34.S0, and have
ordered at least ten tons and shall
ask your advice in regard to feeding
same. Have sixty head of yearltngs
| on full feed, twenty-five to thirty
pounds of silage and twenty pounds
of cobmeal. Thought | would add
cottonseed up to about three and
one-third pounds per head per day.
starting on one-haif pound. I also
have forty head OF good 70o-pound
cattle that are just starting to feed.
VIII start on siiage that contains
about eighty bushels per acre of corn
and expect to add the cobmeal as soon
as necessary to do so. Would you
begin at the commencement or soon
afterward to feed little cottonseed ?
State in your Judgment what would
be the proper time to begin feeding
these cattle and in what quantities.
These are a very uniform lot OF cat
tie, showing good breeding. mostly
Shorthorns with a few Herefords, and
or good typo. Would like to make
them good by the latter part Of June,
Have plenty of silage and can let
them run on pasture, but do not think
1t wise to do SO when you wish to
market by June. Another thing. The
hogs that are after these cattle are
all brood sows. VIII the cottonseed
injure them2"
With reference to the yearlings.
you are feeding, it would seem to me
that you would get more economical
results by feeding cottonseed meal at
the rate of not to exceed three pounds
per thousand pounds live weight OF
cattle. Perhaps the three and one
third pounds per head per day which
you suggest would work out about
that way. ! would not start on more
than one-haK pound per head per
day, and would think one-quarter of
q pound per head per day would be
even better. oeapsouk cmfw mfw
even better. You speak of feeding
with twenty-five to thirty pounds of
ensilage twenty pounds of cobmeal.
With silage l prefer cornmeal to corn
and cobmeal, as practically the only
benefit that comes from the cob is
to furnish bulk to the ration. Its
feeding value Is very slight. indeed,
and you do not need 1t for roughage
l believe, too, that the amount fed
is rather heavier than Ii necessary.
Again, more economical results will
come from feeding a rather lighter
ration, especially where you add the
cottonseed meal,
In regard to the 7o0-pound cattle.
would advise beginning tho use OF
cottonseed meal soon. / should get
these cattle on full feed. say. by the
last Of February, II you have been
feeding thin little grain all winter.
I like to feed such cattle about
twenty pounds OF siiage. fourteen
pounds OF cornmeal or q peck OF ear
corn and three pounds of cottonsee
meal per day per thousand pounds
live weight OF cattle. ! know this
Is not as heavy q ration as most men
advise. but i believe that the larger
rart of the finish put on cattle can be
more economically put ON In this way
atfep ractftaify as fast During the
last month or six weeks OF feeding
the amounts given oan be increased
somewhat. generally with very salts
factory results. II you feed the cot.
tonsoed meal as suggested and are
careful shout letting this hogs get Ac-.
cess 10 It direotlythat - before IL