New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-03-23
WHAT IT COSTS TO RAISE
HOGS STEERS.
Large Crowd Visits Iberia Farm
Tuesday; Results Of Years
Work Told.

results OF experiments con-
Quoted the past year on the Fed
eral Livestock Farm, near New
Iberia, which doubly prove tina,
the raising of cattle and hogs III
Louisiana is safe, sound and
money making business, were
made public at the farm Tuesday.
About 800 people, including a
number of cotton, rice and cane
planters, visited the farm during
the day, which was the third an
nual visitors day. j. r. Cues
enberry, acting manager of the
farm, his assistants and herdsmen
were hosts.
One hundred common, native
Southern steers were fed silage,
cOttonseed meal and velvet bean
meal for 90 days and when sold
on the open market brought from
S. 80 to $l12.0S per head. which
was net cash profit of from
$'4.74 to $34,65 per head.
Seventy hogs bred and raised
on the farm weighing an average
Of 221 pounds when II months of
age, were sold on the market at
19 cents pounds, or $42.07 per
head. Deducting the cost Of feed
ing, grazing and marketing, a
net cash profit of $23.O5 per hog
was realized.
The farm also has dairy cattle
and mule raising projects under
way but the tests have not run
for sufficient length of time,
under suitable condition. sin
feeding dairy calves up to the age
of six months, Manager Quesen-
berry s records show the feed cost,
on the average. has been $41.07 |
per head. The feeds given,
charged at market prices, were
corn crops, corn, cob and shuck
meal, bran, rice polish, ground
corn, cottonseed meal, oats, whole
and skim milk. cowpea and green
soybean hay, sorghum and soy
bean silage and barley pasture.
The cost of raising mule colts
to the age of % months was
s112.02 per head. average weight
S82 pounds; and to only 8 months
Of age, 1892, average weight
400 pounds. A full colt crop is
expected in 1918 and the detailed
records of cost will be kept on a
larger and more satisfactory
basis.
Steers, Fed Corn Silage
Make e1e Biggest Profit.
Getting backfto the cattle rails
ne a{lbject- "a live issue in the
south now--the records show !
hat the lot Of steers fed on corn ]
'ilage and cottonseed meal made !
he heaviest gain. the cheapest
rain, sold for the highest price !
md made the biggest profit. The
militia weight of the steers in this
OF was 1888 pounds and the final =
weight was 985 pounds, gain
# PAT pounds in 80 days. The =
otal cost of these steers. includ-
ng their original purchase price !
It $7.95 per 100 pounds was G
'77.54 at the end Of the feeding 9
,eriod and their market value
hen was $11.37 per hundred y
weight or $112.O8 per head, reprs- 9
enting q profit per head of $3454. y
The third years test at feeding 9
ugar cane tops silage to beef cat
e turned out proftably, sufficient
y so to justify ensilaging and o
eeding the ]. 100000 tons Of cane 2
ops which now mostly are q
urned or otherwise wasted. :
iany Of the large sugar planters
ave been interested in this ex- q
erimet. The steers weighed 757 p
ounds at the beginning Of the Q
eri0d and 884 pounds at the An ?
ii. gain in 80 days of 1877 l
ounds. The steers received 2.O47 y
ounds of cane tops silage, 900 '
ounds Of sorghum silage and 923 9
ounds Of soybean-sorghum sill
&c. The latter named silages $
ad to be fed because the cane :
BPS were exhausted after Sc days