Arizona republican., 1920-12-19


 was done in pasture, pen and feed troughs being unknown. Cattle were brought off tke range in the spring or In the fall and were placed on pas ture, where they remained until fat enough for market. the only addition to the pasture rations being hay which was fed sometimes in racks but mostly scattered on the ground. The hay was principally alfalfa and winter pasture, and what the cattle were finished on was principally alfalfa and young bar ley. While this ration does not meet tue requirements of a standard bal anced ration for beef cattle, many car loads of good beef cattle were obtained each year by this method of feeding. the time required for this method be- ing from six to nine months.
 Use of siIos
 By the use of silos, roughages that would otherwise have been passed by as of little or no use are now being used every day as a base for the fat tening ration. At this point it might he we'll to give silos further mention. Space will not permit more than a few words. Take, for example, a 40acre field of corn stalks about this season of the year. It does not require the orinion of an expert to convince us that it's value for forage is not great.
 
 ellage. It will supply at least one half of the roughage of the nation for 15O head of fattening three-year- old steers for a period of 100 days.
 Discussing the feeds grown for cat tle in the Salt River valley. silage ranks among the first, if not the first The siiage crop heres here are corn and sorghum. And here rises the much-debated question, which is the wl.trw~a While the average yield per acre is greater from a corp of sorghum, the feeding value of corn silage per ton ex- ceeds that of sorghum Hawecer. botl are good. A crop of sorghum require: less time to mature. While silage i! rot in itself a balanced ration, 1t is succulent roughage of sufficient car bonrydrate ts be easily balanced by thu addition of a small amount of protein concentrate such as cottonseed meal. Considerable space has already beel devoted to alfalfa but we might fur ther state that alfalfa as a pasture fee' has a high value for adding dry mat ter, protein as a fattening ration il pen feeding. As a by-product iron our well-known Egyptian cotton W have the cottonseed products for feed mainly cotton seed, cottonseed hulls cottonseed cake, cottonseed meal. Tn seed can be profitably fed up to fiv pounds per head but above that poin n fs doubtful whether the gains woul warrant feeding more of it. Cotton ss.ed huIls are of little value as feeC Int as dry matter for the ration the are good. Hulls are soft and contai Al.t enough of the taste of the me; ana hull to make them appetizing. Yer little cottonseed cake is fed in the val 1ev Meal is fed instead, cake bein used more for supplementary feed o fbe range. whereas the feeding of me; cione would allow some animals to gt loo much at once.
 Pen Feeding
 The Salt River valley probably nev' ,,,,fi equal the middle west in the prC Snction of ear and shell corn per acl snd the price will never warrant suc a liberal use of it fin the ration. ,t-,cs though, the market price wi ,--rrnif its use for a short period ( tbe finish. Following very closely corn in feed values are the grain sort bun,s The market often makes DO sibic a more liberal use of this feed the finish. ,,.,- - -,or in the salt River valley.
 The most profitable length of peril .. ve, feeding is 90 to 120 days V ss tt nreceded by a period of two "a. vreptxs on pasture, as cattle uirect ss rsnge require some time to becor o-r,storned to the new conditions. TT o~;,d on pasture affords an excel Ie .,ortunitv to secure profit ire ,-l, yields for alfalfa which is grov I,te to he made into hay. 9th
 feeders. there is place on [ for a few head of young sto' N,.r of the cotton stocks, grain stu ..i'a a,d much other roughage that | ,-o,,I5 be entirely wasted If not us ,rs-l-et situations make it impossll
 ostabiish a fixed ration as 1t as t,sn feed this year might be enuf' .t of reach next year. Trials ha e,.e5 very conclusively that no ma v-bat else is fed, part of the rauo sSouId be silage- And we uo MI MI s,lot tbe crops of the Salt River val
 of sufficient numbers to afford
 -,fIe1+ variety 10 select according ,Ec roar.Iset prices of feed. It mls
 ,rgu to add here that white &"
 -,,r~ viii be added this year to y. of foraEes grown in the sat- hl
 Feeding Statistics
 r..,r,,rent among the cattle feed tbe valley arc tho Burnt ranch B'