The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-01-26
THE SUCCESSFUL FARMERS
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$50 to their value. This could be
done just as we'll by the farmer him.
self, thus realizing a good deal bet
ter profit for his livestock.
In feeding beef cattle in the west,
we need but little in the way of barns
though an open shed has some adj
v~antages, as it keeps out the wet and
excessive cold. With alfalfa hay we
have found that but very little grain
is necessary in order to make good
gains with beef steers. In evperi.
ments conducted at the Utah station,
gains of nearly two pounds a day
were secured on an average of about
four pounds of grain when fed with
alfalfa. At 81 a ton for the alfalfa
and about $22 for the grain, fairly
cheap gains were made, and if ami
mails were purchased and sold in a
good way, profit could be made from
this business. Wild hay is also a
good feed for beef cattle, especially
If some grain can be fed in conjunc-
ton. In some sections, however, no.
tably along the Bear river, profita-
BILE feeding is carried on every win
ter with hay alone. The cheapest
gains ever reported in feeding wheat
for beef were made in the west when
alfalfa and beet pulp were used. If
the farmer can get hold of beet
pulp and fed 1t with good hay, he
would find remarkably good gains
can be made and at a good profit.
One thing We should get over in u
western beef business is feeding our
steers until they are three and four
years old, as the profits are gener.
ally much larger when the animals
are sold at younger ages.
In feeding the dairy COW, we have
quite a different proposition, as the
dairy animal has 10 layer of fat like
the beef animal to keep her warm.
For this reason, good barns should
be supplied wherever dairy cows are
to be kept. A dairy animal does
more work than practically any other
animal ON the farm and one cannot
afford to have her food going to pro.
duce heat to keep her warm under
adverse conditions. A good, warm
comfortable stable should be sup
piled. The dairy COW is a factory
which uses a large amount of rough
feed works it over, and gives milk,
the concentrated product. If then,
the animal :" supplied with good raw
products, a large amount of milk can
be manufactured. Straw and poor
hay cannot make enough energy to
much more than keep up the body
heat of the animal and of course
there would be no excess from whieh
to make milk. Dairy cows should
have a liberal allowance of good al
falfa, and should be fed in connec-
ton some grain and roots. Ground
barley, bran, or rolled oats can be
used to supply the grain. The bran
is a protein feed and does not bal
the alfalfa nearly as well as
the barley, yet it is liked by the cows
and is generally a part of every dali
ry ration. 1t has been found, how
that not more than three
pounds cal be fed per day with al
falfa with any degree of profit.
The dairymen at Richmond found
they could bring in corn and
feed it with bran and alfalfa to a
Carloads are purchased ev-
cry year and good results seem to
be obtained where the cost is not
over $1.20 per hundred. If some
roots, such as mangels, could be add
ed to the dairy ration, it would help
materially, as succulents of this kind
are needed by the dairy cows. Keep
The dairy COW comfortable, give her
all that she can eat of good feed,
and If she is the right kind of ani-
nal, she will return you a very good
profit for your trouble.
In the raising of horses in the
west we lose sight quite often of the
act that colts If allowed to run down
ind get in poor shape never make big
Size sells on the market and
every hundred pounds over fourteen
hundred is generally worth about
b25. At $25 a hundred, horse flesh
IAN be produced by the farmer at a
great profit. Feed the colts we'll,
the draft youngsters some
grain, such as oats or bran during
he winter and supplying them good
pasture or range during the summer.
f this is done, you might just as well
70 selling 1900 and 100 pound
lorses at four years old instead of
the 1400 pound kind. In
your work horses, too much
llfalfa is generally fed, for 1t is very
,alatable, and the horses learn to
gorge themselves on it. About one
Ind a fourth pounds Of hay and
hree-fourths to one pound of grain
every hundred pounds live weight
# your horse will be practically all
hat Is needed. In some sections al
alta is not liked as a horse feed, yet
n practically all experiments it has
'een proven superior, pound for
to timothy, when fed to work
Oats is the ideal grain for
but bran can. be fed to ad-
'antage, I'D where bran is cheaper