The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-01-04
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amount of milk; can be manufactured.
Straw and poor hay cannot make e.
pough energy to much more than keep
'pp the body heat Of the animal and Of
course there would be no excess from
which to make milk. Dairy cows
should have a liberal allowance of goo
alfalfa, and should be fed in connection
some grain and roots. Ground barley,
bran. or rolled oats can be used to SUP
ply the grain. The bran is protein
feed and does not balance the alfalfa
nearly as well as the barley, yet it is
liked by the cows and is generally
part of every dairy ration. 1t has been
found, however, that not more than
three pounds can be fed per day with
alfalfa with any degree of profit.
The dairy at Richmond found that
they could bring in corn and feed it
with bran and alfalfa to a profit Car
loads are purchased every year and
good results seem to be obtained wher
the cost is not over $1.20 per hundred.
II some. roots, such as mangels, could
be added 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 animal,
she will return you very good pro-
fit for your trouble.
In raising of horses in the West,
we lose sight quite often of the fact
that colts If allowed to run down and
get in poor shape often never make
big horses. Size sells on the market
and every hundred pounds over four
teen hundred is generally worth about
$500. AT $25 a hundred, horse flesh
can be produced by the farmer at a
great profit. Feed the colts well, CIV
ing the draft youngsters some grain,
such as oats or bran during the winter
and supplying them good pasture or
range during the summer. If this is
done. you might just as well be selling
1900 and 100 pound horses at four
years old instead of marketing the IA
90 pound kind. In feeding your work
horses, too much alfalfa is generally.
fed, for it is very palatablt and hors-
es learn to gorge. themselves on 1t.
About one and a fourth pounds of hay
and three-fourths to one pound OF graf
for every hundred pounds live weight
Of your horse will be- practically all
that is needed. In some sections al
falfa is not liked as horse feed, yet in
practically all experiments it 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 advantage. and
where bran is cheaper than oats one
half Of the grain ration can be supple
by this. Feed most Of your hay at
night SC that the bulky food will be
digested before the horses go to work.
Give some hay in the morning and but
very little at noon.
Feeding lambs is going to be a prof
table business in the West, and alfal-
ia hay mixes very good roughage 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-ration'
of grain we're given, that is, only a.
bout half as much grain is fed as the
feeders Of the Fast would use. With
lambs weighing sixty poundsl about
a third Of a pound OF grain a day seen
to give very gooi results. One advan.
tage in sheep feeding is that grains
do not have to he ground. and the ami
mails need but very little housing.
! Tho 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. Keel
the pigs CROWNS by feeding such grair
as grounf barley OF wheat or shorts
These fed with skim-milk, alfalfa and
some roots viii; produce pork at a yer.
low price and Will allow the farmer a
very nice profit on his investment
Pork can be produced at from 8 te
cents a pound, and II the selling
price is as it has ieen, to Z cents,
you see that very good returns are
secured. DO not let tie young pigs
! stop growing as the stunting1 for q
i little while of the young animAls is go
his to make the cost Of fuhfe gains
livery fnncR greater.
Il The advantages to be gained ther