Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
GREATER PROFIT IN FEEDING
STOCK THAN IN sELLlNo
GRAIN.
EXPERTS PARTICIPATE
IN AMEs DEMONSTRATIONS
Facts and Figures Of Interest to Iowa
Farmers Set Forth in Addresses Of
Officers Of State Assoei ation-Farm
Or Who Sells Grain instead Of Feed
ing 10 Loser.
Special to Times Republican.


Ames, Jan. Sits beef, for one thing.
good, red blooded beef, that stands in
the way of the American people. ever
becoming mollycoddles. That is the
statement of Dean Charles F. Curtiss
made to a big "beefsteak" mass meet
ing of short course students at Iowa
State College. He was Sc ,onded in his
opinion by prominent beef producers
like Charles Fischer, president Of the
Iowa Beef Producers Association;
George II. Burge, secretary and Rex
Beresford, specialist. These men point
ed out the need of beef in the Ameri-
cans ration, they presented figures
showing the serious shortage in the
supply, and they made 1t clear that beef
can be grown on Iowa lanl with profit.
Some time ago, l invested in 200
head Of pure bred cows at an average
price of 5000 head" said Mr.. Escher,
and they're producing beef at profit
for me on high priced lane"
Big Money In Beef.
During the past summer, visited
ninety beef producing farms in
Iowa." said Mr.. Reresford, and of their
not made money in their experience Of
from one to twelve years. At twenty
four farms I got book figures as to re-
suits and profits. On these twenty
four farms in the past year, SIG beef
calves were produced. They We're sold
at an average age of 14k months, at
an average weight of S32 pounds, and
an average price Of $3.50 per hundred
weight. That's $67 head. Figuring
corn at 60 cents a bushel, silage at 81
a ton, cottonseed meal at $50 ton,
clover hay at SIS ton ami pasture for
COWS at $50 per month, these calves
made net profit of 81 mead. That rs
saying nothing of the fertility returned
to the soil in the manure of these ami
mails.
Destroying Iowa Fertility.
When the Iowa farmer sells his
grain crop instead of feeding it, he's
losing money fast There's a good
deal of that in Iowa. Recently count
ed eighty-four wagons in one town
waiting to unload corn at the elevator
at IS cents bushel. BY feeding, that
corn would have brought from GO cents
to dollar a bushel."
Moreover, 1t was pointed out when
a dollars worth of corn is sold at 40
ats a bushel, the farmer also sells AZ
cents worth of fertility; when he sells
a dollars worth of beef at So hundred
he sells only cents worth of fertility
Referring to the daily procession OF
corn that goes past his farmstead in
Kossuth county. President T. ]. Julian,
Of the Iowa Holstein BTe aders' ASCOT
alton, called it funeral procession Of
Iowa fertility. The Iowa Beef Pro-
ducers Association is back Of the
movement to check this loss thru in
creased beef production and is conduct
ing a statewide educational campaign
to that end with special trains and
institute lectures.
Animal Husbandry Demonstrations.
This week. animal husba ndry is get
ting special emphasis at the short
course. John Costing. of Kansas City,
gave his practical demonstration OF
meats, first on hoof and then in car
cass. A yearling steer, first prize win
ner at the international. an over-fed
heifer, short fed steer and Gamer.
besides sheep and hogs. were first
DEMONSTRATED to the students on hoof
and then slaughtered for demonstra-
ton Of the merits and defects of the
various carcasses. For the horse work,
the college has the use of a carload OF
the choicest draft animals from the
Truman Pioneer Stud farm and the ex-
cellent college animals. The weeks
work will close with special insrruc-
ton in feeding and management and
breeding of hogs.