The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-11
SUCCESS WITH CATTLE
G. B. Mcmillan Of Hannah Is Meeting
With Considerable Success ia
Feeding Young stocksrs.

Langdon Republican: Late last &C.
tober G. b. Mcmillan OF Hannah pur-
chased sixty head Of young stockers
for feeding this winter at hts farm at
Hannah. We had the pleasure OF look
ing over the outfit on New Years
morning, n 1t looked good to see
something Of this sort being done, and
in a way that promises satisfactory re-
turns.
To begin with this is not Mr.. Nc
Mtllan's first experience In feeding cat
tie, as last winter he fed a small lot
and that bunch topped the Chicago
market the day they were sold. This
lot of sixty head Is of mixed breeding
mostly steers, and moi as well bred as
they should be for profitable feeding,
but it was the best lot that he could
pick up, and as many Of these arr
| young, some are making more of a
growth than laying on fat. These cat
tie were put on feed at the time of the
first snow In November, and will be
fed until grass n At that tfHne
those that are sufficiently matured will
be marketed. n the balance put on
grass until midsummer. The feed used
Is ensilage, alfalfa, chopped a bum
dies. and some oats and barley mixed,
The silo is 16x32 and was filed to
the roof from fifteen acres of north
western dent corn. This silo cost $500,
Just the price Of an ordinary granary
and will furnish plenty of this part 81
the feed for the sixty head until grass
comes. The ensiIage cutter cost a little
over $500. "A sample OF the ensilage
sent to a Minnesota station for q test,
shows it TO be richer in feeding value
than any ensiiage tested from silos In
southern Minnesota. From a field OF
seventeen acres of alfalfa, which is Just
getting well started, something over
thirty-ive tons OF hay was secured,
and the oat bundles were stacked In
stead OF being threshed and are hauled
in and out as used. The manure is
being hauled out daily and spread on the
farm, and while the steers are expected
to show a profit on the feeding another
good profit will be made through the
Increased fertility OF that particular
farm, by the increase in yields of grain
that viii follow.
This is real farming, and there Is
considerable personal satisfaction ~
this kind Of work. Mr.. Mcmillan paid
$50 an acre for that farm, and will
make 1t worth 800, not by boosting
prices, but by farming 1t in such q
way that it will pay a better return
at 500 an acre than the usual SYSTEM
will pay on a $50-an-acre farm.
Inere Is uOlHHlB dDUht hA0 WAoAS
proposition that cannot be easily han
died by ii farmer who wishes to raise
and feed some stock. There are many
reasons why every farmer should carry
a reasonable amount of stock on these
farms, and il Mr.. Mcmillan can make
1T pay to buy the feeders. and at higf
price hire every hours work done, 4
should be much more profitable for tn
farmer who can raise his own feeders
and during the winter months wher
there is nothing to do except chores
he can pocket some OF the high wages
paid to hired help.
For the past few years the high
prices OF coarse grains have discouT
aged many feeders. but now 1t would
pay much better to feed than to sci
grain, and the chances are better thar
even that during the next few years
we will not see as high an average
price for grain as we have had in the
| past.