Milford chronicle., 1911-03-31
CATTLE FEEDING DONE
ON A VERY LARGE SCALE
The Wicomico News saws .

ms peCtlOn OF Lue CdlIlC Val 10 VI 04iN
former Congressman. A represen-
tative of The News visited these
farms recently and made thorough
inspection of the big industry Of
cattle feeding carried on by the Con-
gresham at his two places, the Rider
and Trader farms.
AT these two farms there are at
present nearly four hundred steers
being fattened for market The
larger number is at the Rider farm
because the Congressman has the
biggest cattle barns at his farm, but
in another year there will be as much
accommodation at the Trader farm,
and at both places after some con-
templated improvements are made.
there will he room for nearly five
hundred steers
"This business is not only profit
able hut it is the modern method OF
farming At each farm thousands
of tons of feed are raised every year
and instead OF marketing this feed
| Mr. Jackson feeds it through the
steers and then markets the cattle.
The cattle are purchased from the
West when young and are fattened
and marketed when they will aver
age about / 400 pounds. They are
purchased in the fall and marketed
in the spring. On each of his farms
the ex-Congressman has immense
barns built especially with view Of
fattening cattle. The floors are all
concrete and the stalls are laid off to
accommodate about len steers each.
Along the front of each stall runs
the feeding trough and at the bottom
of each are the hay boxes. Between
each stall are the water truughs
The men only have to turn the spig-
OTIS to let in the water for the steers
A gasoline engine pumps water and
windmills are also used. The engine
is also used to chop up the corn and
drilled corn for the silOs. The silos
are built at the intersection Of the
barns and open right into the build |
ings and are -mptied as wanted
On each farm Mr.. Jackson has enough |
silns to accommodate several thous-
and tons of ensilage. This gives
the cattle green feed all the winter.
FEED CATTLE systematically.
"The cattle are fed systematically.
Each day they get hay twice, ensil-
age twice and cotton seed one. 1t
takes IA force of several men who do
nothing but feed and water the cat
tie. The stalls are cleaned once
each week of the manure which Is
loaded in manure wagons and spread
on the farm Already so far this
season eighty acres have been broad.
casted with the manure from the cat
tie barns and another field of eighty
acres will also be broadcasted before
time. Tue output of ma
nure from the Rider farm is 125 (
wagon loads each week by the use
of thi- manure, which is augmented
by the manure from the big Palace
Stables, IN Salisbury, the farus of
the Congressman are made rich and
fertile. The yield of corn from the
fields on his farm is probably the
largest in the State. Hay is raised
in such vast quantities that it is with
places are found to store .
[. although the !, fits in the four big 4
larns ON the Rider farm will hold
luudreds upon hundreds of tons
Notwithstanding the big bunches OF
,attle Mr. Jackson has on his farm. q
le never has to buy a pound of feed
md always has plenty left over alter
he steers are sold. &
MIR Jackson has been making y
ome improvements on the Trader !
arm including a new residence and
additional barns and will build two !
additional barns at the Rider farm
leXt summer so as to provide addi-
iOnal stalls for cattle feeding next
' llLGl. liz management bl lMO ilE =
arms like these owned by Mr. Jack.
on is a problem, and yet the Con-
.ressman is familiar with all the
Ietails and handles all the problems
With ease. He takes a keen interest "
n both places and each farm is pro-
lded with all the modern and up
n-date farm machinery so as to
Ighten the work and make it easy =
0 produce big crops. =
GETTING THE REVENUE. n
"Mr. Jackson has always conten- \
ed that the only way to get reve- ii
ue from good grain and grass farm
! to feed the product of the farm 5,
trough cattle, and putting the man L
re back on the farm. He has GER {,
linty been eminently successful at fl
ne business and has made it pay big ln
rohts. There are others in Wico- st
lico who could follow his lead very C,
roftably and would no doubt get X
atter results than by selling their "a
r,,1,rote ~, tl,o ,,,o slrafs M. ,..a. ,