Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-04
WHAT AND HOW ID ECONOMICALLY
Cheap Feed Should Be Fed To Breed. sins Nsrt, and Higher Priced Feeds
 To caivss and ysarIines.
By Louis Sawyer. Livestock Special iSt, Extension Division. n. of A.

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 What and how to feed most econom- ically are the questions confronting the owner of livestock in Arkansas right now. In answering these ques- lions it may be said that straw, corn stover. corn silage and other rough leeds should make up the bulk of the winter ration for the grade breeding herd. The cheap feeds should be fed to the breeding herd and the higher priced feeds used for growing the calves and yearlings or finishing cat tle.
 Corn silage, corn stover, rice, rye, oat, wheat or barley straw and cane with about one pound of cotton seed cake per head per day will maintain the breeding herd through the winter and will furnish nutrient to develop the premature calf. The feeding of part corn stoyer or corn silage and part straw with the cotton seed cake is superior to the use of single roMghage.
 Straws: According to the present value of feeds the feeding value of straws per ton is ranked as follows: Rice. oat, barley, wheat, rye. Rice straw with it's large amount of leaves and soft stem has about an equal feed ing. value to, timothy or prairie hay. Oat straw has soft stem but lower percentage of leaves. Barley straw ranks next to oat straw with it's low percentage. of leaves and rather coarse stem, Wheat and rye straw are coarse and stin and not as we'll eaten by cattle.
 Corn Stalks: Corn stalks are fed in four ways: Corn silage, shock stover, shredded stover and stalk fields. The greatest value received from the corn stalks is by making enstlage of them. They are thus kept in 2 succuient form, are more easily digested and are very palatable. m The shredded corn stover is the most valuable of the dry stover. It can be cut and blown into the barn. In this form it is easily handled. There is less waste and it is more di- gestible than the uncut stalk.
 The shock stover is the form in which the dry corn stalks are most satisfactorily handled and fed. It re. quires less labor and prevents much waste. The stalks and leaves gre we'll cured when cut and shocked, while in the field many of the leaves are damaged and blown away and the entire stalk is in dry and unpalata- ble form. About 45 per cent of the corn stover in the United States is wasted mainly in the stalk field. Dry corn stover is little superior in value to cat straw, the leaves are superior in value while the stalks make up the big waste.
 The feeding of all the corn stover that will be cleaned up, and all the straw. that will be cleaned up and one pound of cotton seed cake or five or six pounds of legume hay per heaa per day make very satisfactory win. tering ration. Much greater value is | received from the corn stover when 1t is fed with another roughage as straw,
 Protein Supplement: The Velvet Bean is one of the best protein sup. i plements in the stalk field. In the northern sections of the state the le-
 gume hays as clover, alfalfa, or pea
 hay can more easily be obtained to
 make up the protein supplement. It will require five or six pounds per
 head per day of the hays to supply sufficient protein. In the balance of the state the protein supplements easiest to obtain are cotton seed cake or pea vines. It will require one
 pound of the cake or five or six pounds of the pea vine per head per day. For growing young stock one and onehalf to two pounds of cotton seed
 cake or six to ten pounds of alfalfa, clover or pea hay should be fed with the roughage. The larger amount of protein supplement is required with growing cattle as the rough feeds fur nish only heat and energy and the
 protein feeds are essential for the
 animals to make gain.
 Thus, do not say straw. corn fodder
 and cane are worthless feeds because
 you do not get satisfactory results
 when you feed only one of them. Feed
 at least two of them, as corn stalk ! pasture or corn stover during the day
 and straw or cane in the morning or
 evening, when you also feed the cot
 ton seed cake or legume hay It
 takes the combination and protein
 supplement for the breeding herd to
 hold its weight and produce large
 strong otfspring.
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