The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-25
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TO make one year lat Or growth, or
feeds three COWS to give one cows
milk or cream is just as unwise.
Many factories are run night and
day TO increase the production and
save the taxes and interest on the
investment, making a maximum pro-
duction with small increase of the
fixed charges.
Here is an all important lesson for
feeders. Interest on investment, tax
es, rent, the animal life and heat,
accidents, insurance, wear and tear
Of tools, etc., are some Of the fixed
charges on the farm.
An animal may be feed so badly or
irregularly, starved one day and over
fed the next, or the feed dribbled out
so slowly that the animal only gets
enough to sustain life, thus consume
enough to fatten him if properly fed,
yet never gain a pound of flesh, even
lose flesh instead of gaining.
Prof. Henry says an OK takes $40
per cent of the feed to sustain the
animals life for heat and work.
So it behooves us to make the most
use Of our time, making the greatest
gain possible in the least time, as a
matter Of economy in feeding.
It is conceded as we'll known
fact that the most popular and profit
able beef made to-day is the Baby
Beef, and | am safe in saying that
we'll balanced ration of Ensilage will
make more and better beef in less
time than any other feed we can pro-
duce practically in Tennessee.
Numerous experiments show that
the steer gains flesh and grows faster
and at much less expense when from
six to fifteen months of age That
the older he gets the slower and more
expensive his gains become, until
gains cease entirely and a decline
begins.
A fattening steer if kept quiet,
might use little less feed to sustain
life than an OK, but the fact that a
sheep uses 5G.G per cent and pig
46.6 per cent, would indicate that a
steer would not fall far short of the
percentage used by his older brother,
the OK. (From Feeds and Feedings.)
The Ontario Agricultural College,
reports feeding three lots of steers.
Group one had fifty-seven and
fOrty-seven one hundreds of silage,
11.72 pounds of meal, equal parts of
peas, barley and oats ground togeth-
er, daily. They made a gain of 1.19
pounds per day. Group two had 300
pounds Of silage, lib pounds of
meal and. 9.3 pounds Of fine clover
and timothy hay, made gains of 1853
pounds per day.
Group three had 43.7 pounds of
beets and turnips, Hip pounds of
meal and 1872 pounds of hay, MAX
ing a gain of 1874 pounds per day,
showing clearly that while liberal
ration Of roots made a good gain, the
larger ration of silage was far super
Tor to the small ration of silage, or
better than roots even as a beef feed,
and cost far less to produce.
In England where great depend
ence is made on roots for feeding,
hand labor is cheap, while here it is
too expensive for wedding. We can
raise silage by machinery much
cheaper, and the same land will pro-
duce more than double the feed in
corn and soy beans.
| notice that the State Experiment
Station reports silage fed in most of
their beef feeding experiments that
/ have seen. Also that the COW pea
feed was far superior to corn and the
soy bean was nearly twice as good
as peas, or three times as good as
corn, in several cases.
1t is the universal claim of all feed
ers whom | have talked with after