Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-22
GOOD TALKS ON
FEEDING LIVESTOCK

1000 annually through the proper
care Of slower and feeding live
stock was discussed by Prof. E
S. Good, assistant director of the
State Experiment Station, Ken
lucky University College of Ag-
riculture, in an address to farm
ers and breeders at the Bourbon
Stock Yards, Louisville. Prof
! Goods talk was given in conncc-
, ton with the Farmers Better
Sire Sale, June End, to be CON
Quoted by the Kentucky Pure
Bred Livestock Association and
the Louisville Livestock Ex-
change, at which 200 pure bred
registered bulls will be sold at
auction.
The. address of Prof. Good fol-
lows:
i am one Of those who believe
Kentucky should have more cat
tie, a larger number of head of
livestock. [ have been in this
game quite a number Of years,
and | can remember the time
when the bullock went to mar
ket weighing 1900 pounds. then
after q few years, came down to
| 400 pounds. No one thought
of putting a steer on the market
weighing less than l.400 pounds.
now we are getting them to (
much smaller weight, developing
quality III order to do it, must
have better sires. In olden times
in Illinois, we always fattended
cattle with 90 bushels of corn and
a ton OF clover hay, but man
feeding that way today would go
broke. If we are going to be
successful in feeding steers. we
must learn how to cut the costs.
\ man who feeds an unlimited
amount Of corn is going to somci
out at the little end Of the horn.
| want to say to YOU that Ken
lucky loses annually a great deal
of livestock by not conserving
the roughs. The losses by not
taking proper care OF slower isl
estimated anywhere from five
to ten millions or in other
words. one-fourth of the slower
in Kentucky is lost. If YOU leave
it out of the fields, the rain caus-
es loss and if You wait until
spring to feed it you get very it'll
tie out Of it. If it is cut with the
corn and put into the siIo, the
steer eats all of it and thus ii is
conserved. If we are going toI
feed. we must have ration. The
old method OF feeding cattle was
a full feeding of silaee. full feed |
ing of corn, or cottonseed meal, |
etc.
THE next thing was that clo-
yer hay was not necessary when
feeding heterogeneous feeds as cot
ton seed meal, and with this. il
can be eliminated. If YOU have !
second growth, it is all right to
this, but it is not neces-
sary to give clover hay to the !
steer If you are feeding cotton
seed meal, save the clover for the |
young. Next thing in feeding
silage is to determine whether or
not it is profitable. Whether to
begin with corn at the beginning
or to eliminate corn from the first |
feeding period. It is more pro
table to eliminate corn entirely
if corn is high and
there are a number of steers on
the market. The man this vearf
who has fed his steers corn sill
age. cottonseed meal and straw
has made money or at least has
ost the least.
"a long time ago the Blue
Grass Region thought that if YOU
fed cattle on silage during the
winter it would not Craze good
Turing the summer. Where YOU
.eed cottonseed meal in the win
-er, it takes ! little longer to get
die steer to gain on grass. A
Test was made with one bunch
feeding with shelled corn,-straw
md cottonscd meal which gained
Is much as those fed with silaee.
md the cattle went on grass
about the same. The
'ilage fed steer put on gain six
n seven timescheaper than those
hat did not get it. Two out of
-hree years the steer that did not
get silage gained better on grass
han those that did. In one year
hose that got silage made a bet
-er profit than the others. We
-ried feeding one bunch on cot
.onseed meal and silage and turn
ed another bunch on grass. then
brought them back and finished
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