The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-01-19

Portable, give her all that she can
eat of good feed, and if she is the
right kind Of animal she will return
you a very good profit for your trou-
bic.
In the raising of horses in the west
we lose sight quite often of the fact
that colts if allowed to run down and
get i'll poor shape never make big
horses. Size sells on the market and
every hundred pounds over fourteen
hundred is generally worth about So.
At SIS hundred, horse flesh can be
produced by the farmer at great
profit. Feed the colts well, giving the
draft youngsters some grain, such as
oats or bran during the winter and
supplying them good pasture or range
during the summer. 1T this is done,
you might just as well be selling 1000
and 1900 pound horses at four years
old instead of marketing the 400
pound kind. In feeding your work
horses, too much alfalfa is generally
fed, for it is very palatable, and the
horses learn to gorge themselves on
it. About one and a fourth pounds of
hay and three-fourths to one pound
of grain for every hundred pounds live
weight of your horse will be practi
cally all that is needed. In some
sections alfalfa is not liked as a horse
feed, yet in practically all experiments
| 1t has been proven superior, pound for
pound, to timothy, when fed to work
horses. Oats is the ideal grain for
horses, but bran can be fed to adj
vantage, and where bran is cheaper
than oats, one-half of the grain ration
can be uspplied by this. Feed most OF
your hay at night SO that the bulky
food will be digested before the horse
| goes to work. Give some hay in the
mornings and but very little at noon.
Feeding lambs is going to be prof
| table business in the west, and alfalfa
hay makes very good rouphage for
them. Along with this, wheat, oats
or barley make very profitable feeds.
In experiments conducted at the Utah
Experiment station, lambs made the
most profitable gains when half-ra-
tons of grain were given, that is, only
about half as much grain is fed as the
feeders of the east would use. With
lambs weighing 90 pounds, about a
third of pound of grain a day seem
to give very good results. One ad-
vantage in sheep feeding is that the
grains do not have to be ground, and
| lhS animals HSSu Out Wei htllC
ing.
The hog business is one which the
west is taking up to great extent and
one which is going to yield big profits
to most of the farmers. Feeding is
the biggest proposition with hogs, as
the housing does not cost very much
Keep the pigs growing by feeding
such grains as ground barley or wheat
or shorts. These fed with skim-milk
alfalfa and some roots will produce
pork at very low price and will al
low the farmer very nice profit on
his investment. Pork can be produced
at from 3 to 5 cents pound, and if
the selling price is as it has been, E to
7 cents, you see that very good returns
are secured. Do not let the young
pigs stop growing, as the stunning for
a little while of the young animals is
| going to make the cost of future gains
very much greater.
The advantages to be gained then
for the western farmer from the feed
ing of practically all of his crops upon
his own land are many. AS a rule -ad-
vanced prices are secured over wha!
the market men will give, and this
too, right at your own door, for the
hauling of grain and hay to the rail.
road is big proposition as compared
with the marketing of livestock. Ano-
Their thing not thought of by the west
ern farmer is that some day his lands
are going to run out to certain ex.
tent if some kind of husbandry Is moi
practiced. If, however, nearly every.
thing produced is fed on the farm, ant
the fertility in this way practically al
returned to the soil, the farms can be
just as good when handed down to ths
children as they are now. There il
more fertility sold from the farm
many times in hay and grain thar
the price of the crop would bring
back. Watch this carefully and see to
it that products are marketed from
your farm in a concentrated form
leaving the fertility to help you grow
new crops. Another advantage of the
livestock business is that it equalizes
the work to a great extent on the av-
erage farm. For, in the winter, when
the crops do not worry one, we have
the livestock to take care of, and ir
the summer when the work of the
crops is rushing, the livestock takes
but little attention. AS rule, the man
who is busy is the man who is making
money, and if he can furnish labor
all the year around will be able to
reap larger profit from the invest
ment.
| CHART l.
Composition of Feeds.