Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-27

/ try.
one of the best addresses of the
day was delivered by j. S. Vaught
district attorney, whose home is at
Deming. Mr. Vaught reviewed the
results of the beneficial legislation af
| fecting the cowmen which was passed
/ at the recent session of the legiSla-
lture.
! Urges More Severe Penalties.
He showed how laws carrying with
| them only minor penalties mad been
! allowed to remain on the statute books
since 1894, simply because the live
stock men had never taken enough in
| terest in the matter to have the pen
alties made more severe. For in
stance, a man convicted of stealing
5000 could be sent to the peniten-
tiary for ten years, but the cattle
thief who drove away $50 cow or
steer could not be sent up for more
than five years.
Out of thirteen bills affecting the
| livestock men introduced in the legis-
| lature, nine were passed, most of
them prescribing more drastic pun
ishment for violations.
| Mr. Vaught took the livestock pro-
ducers to task for lack of support
given the authorities charged with en-
forcing the law. in cattle stealing
cases He said the cattle thief al
ways had plenty of friends at the pre-
! liminary hearing and at the trial
while the cattlemen were conspicu-
Gus by their absence. He urged the
members of the association to give
the officials their moral support in
Furnishing cattle thieves.
DR.. A. ID. Grille, president of the
state college delivered an excellent
address on Maintenance Ration for
Range Cattle He said in part:
Grille Gives Address.
Something for the cow to eat:
This is the constant and anxious in
curry of every ranchman. For many
years cows have found their living on
the mountains, hills and valleys of
New Mexico. They have eaten what
nature has finally selected as the sur
vivor of our climatic conditions. The
grasses, weeds and shrubs that we find
are here because of many centuries
of selection, and before we try to
supplement them with new and I'M
tried plants we should be sure that
we have made the greatest use OF
what we find here at hand. There
fore, the agricultural college has set
out to make a careful investigation OF
everything that grows in our state.
We found first that yucca and sotol
could be fed as a maintenance ration
in years of great .drouth. We have
| found also that shad scale is a most
excellent feed and is greatly improved
by the cutting of the old stock, and
that in years of greatest drouth a
splendid new growth will be made,
which growth makes excellent feed
and contains a great deal of protein.
Investigation shows that the one
element of food without which cattle
will not thrive we'll is protein, and
that nature in selecting the plants
that would grow in New Mexico failed
to find those rich in protein, there
fore the problem with the ranchman
is not only to find something to eat,
but to find something to eat that con-
tains protein.
Describes Rations.
Therefore, the definite problems in
our state are. first, to find something
to eat, and, second, protein This
protein is supplied in the concentrate
form in cotton seed meal. To illus
trate, there is only IS pounds of pro-
tein in one hundred pounds Of yucca
or sotol and Sc pounds of protein in
one hundred pounds of salt grass or
toboso grass, while in cotton seed meal
there is As pounds of protein to one
hundred pounds of meal. The same
ration is true of peanut meal That
is why the feeding of cotton seed
cake along with the ranch grass pro-
duces such splendid results.
"Gramma grass has a splendid ra
ton which would be one to twelve.
that is. one part protein and twelve
parts of other substance necessary for
animal maintenance. However, Tor
the growing of a calf the ration OF
protein with all other elements should
| Of ain To Dr
others. But the calf that has its
mothers milk, which is a ration of
one to three or four, mixed with the
grass which it eats, makes proper
growth of bone and muscle and
grows rapidly to maturity. AS soon
as the calf is weaned and gramma
grass is gone and the young calf at
tempts to range and grow on sail
grass or toboso or yucca and it car
not do it. 1t gets a thicker horn, q
longer tail and a bigger belly ano
that is all.
State College Aids.
an those parts of New Mexico
where the rainfall covers a period OF
five or eight years and averages
about fifteen. inches per year, and
that, of course, falling in the summer
time, there should be special feeds
kept for range stock. The economic
requirements of this state will finally
bring into cultivation and use the pro-
auctions of our lands. With the rain
fall as above quoted, cane, sunflower:
and COW peas can be successfully
grown insofar as needed for the max
ing of ensilage, and If the ranchmeI
do not turn these lands to this use
and thereby increase the production
other people will.
las a real help toward specia
feeding the college has carried on al
experiment with sunflowers. On one
acre OF land in seventy-five days VIZ
grew sunflowers for 49, pounds Of
enslage. 1t was of the Russian sun
flower variety and furnished the stocl
with good feed.
| ~ am sure that Il can be prONe(