The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-12-18
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

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Stockmen who for any cause were
unable to attend the great Internation-
al Exposition held in Chicago last
week missed rare educational oppor-
tunity. The notable feature of the
show was the emphasis placed on the
quality of finished animals as dis
tinguished from mere avoirdupois per
carcass. Apparently the popular steer
OF the future is to weigh somewhere
between LOO and l, 400 pounds
The interest taken in the milking
contest held at the international Ex-
position last week under the auspices
of the American Short-horn Breeders
Association indicates that the so.called
dual-purpose cow is retaining her
popularity. There were cows in this
test that gave between forty and fifty
pounds of milk daily and that looks
good to the man who is in the beef
business and at the same time is in
position to milk few COWS. For the
specialist the special-purpose cow is
all right, but for the average man the
dual-purpose cow is holding her own.
The Burrows man would like to hear
the views of readers of this paper in
regard to the variation that might be
expected when corn is sold by meas
urement rather than by weight. We
know that the measurement is not
used in all localities and for that rea-
son we suggest that those interested
send in to this paper statement of
the measurements they use and state
also to what extent this varies from
real weights, taking it one year with
another.
When the last ear of corn hits the
throw board it usually means the end
of the busy season as far asfield work
is concerned, but the real farmer is
never out Of work. This is one of
the beauties of farming. The worst
luck that can happen to any person
that is in good health is to have moth
ing to do.
Some of the experiment stationsare
beginning to handle beef-breeding cat
tie on a somewhat extensive scale.
Up to the present time they have been
feeding steers year after year and
now they feel that the main problems
connected with that branch of the live
stock business have been settled, but
they claim that there is room for con-
siderable investigation work in deter
mining the cost of keeping the cow
and raising calves.
There is one factor connected with
the practice of bringing steers to the
highest possible finish that the general
public is not aware of. We refer to
the practice of using milk right up
to the time the steers weigh l,400 or
1900 pounds. Considering that the |
aim is to bring the animal to the high
est possible condition regardless of
cost the practice is not subject to crit
icisrn, but we doubt if there ever has
been grand champion animal at the
international Exposition that did not
take the milk of one or two cows right
up to the time and through the period
ofthe show. If the truth were known,
many good, fat yearling stallion is
brought into condition by the same 1
process. /
When one compares the amount of
good food that is obtained from stalk
field with the feeding value of the
crop when il is put in the silo the con-
clusion must be reached that the latter,
although it involves some labor, must
be the more profitable practice. thas
been conclusively proven by expert
ment stations that the cheapest gains
on cattle can be made when ensilage |
is freely used. !
The shredding Of corn fodder is be-
coming more general and will nodoubt
increase when we learn more about