South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-25
USE CHEAPER FEED
AND SAVE GRAINS
Corn Fodder, Straw and
ROughageS, Fed With
Concentrates. Make
Good RationS.

EFT Is time % quit shoveHug grain
unfortunately into live stock. Good
livestock farming demands it and
the need or more food requires it,
Feeding grain to meat animals with
a lavish hand is responsible for one
Of the greatest feed losses on the
farms OF this country. Hay, fodder
silage, and pasture are the cheapest
feeds and will carry animals along
with minimum OF grain. Keep the
frames OF the young animals devCl-
oping on these cheap feeds With
hold the full grain ration until the
finishing period arrives. Breeding
cattle may be wintered on the cheap
or feeds"
This advice Of animal bandry
specialists OF the United states de
partment OF agriculture TO stock
feeders Is not emergency advice
only: 10 is the sound logic Of meat
production. which American farmers
must learn If they are 10 compete
successfully with European meat
producers in the coming generations.
These are good days 90 learn the
lesson of feed conservation. In
farmers bulletin SIS. The Utliza-
ton of Farm Wastes in Feeding Live
stock, specialists tell how 10 use
these cheaper feeds i'm rations for
cattle. sheep and horses.
a tremendous waste OF feeding
stuffs occurs annually on American
~
IN this publication. In 1914 about
I20.0O0,0OO tons Of straw were pro-
duced i'm the United States. OF this
amount 50 per cent was fed TO live
stock. / > per cent was burned. eight
per cent sold, and % per cent plOw-
ed under or otherwise disposed of.
Corn stover produced i'm the United
States is estimated at 24J.253. 600
tons. Of which 81 IL per cent is fed
20 cattle and other stocks. No figures
were obtained TO show the percent
age that is wasted in the feeding,
but at least 30 per cent of the total
amount produced represents actua!
waste.
This waste or corn slower can be
checked. il is said, through use of
better methods of feeding fodder
and slower and il can be almost en-
tirely stopped through the use OF
siios Straw and slower are best
utilized for feed when accompanied
hv concentrates. such as COttonseed
lueai. II the large amounts of cot
tonseed meal ordinarily used for
fertilizer in the south were. instead,
fed TO live stock and the manure
used for fertilizer, the value Of the
meal would he increased from so to
50 per cent.
Practical experience as we'll as eN-
detrimental work has taught that
straw and stover can he used very
economically in the rations of almost
an kinds of live stock. They can
De used i'm the fattening rations of
an farm animals except hogs and
should compose the larger part of
aI wntering or keeping rauons Of
cattle. sheep and horses. Breeding
herds OF beef cattle or dry dairy
COWS can be successfully kept on ra-
tions composed largely Of these
roughages. FIocks of breeding ewes
do we'll on such feeds when some
GRAIN is added Horses doing very
light work or no work at all need
little grain if given plentiful all
lowauce of clean, light straw or
stover. Under certain conditions. of
course. grain should he added 20 tho
ration. but now il should Zoe cor
served as largely as possible for
human consumption. The bulletin
mentioned suggests various ratous
which are made up principally OF
these waste feeds.